Business Quote by Andrew Ross Sorkin

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“Everyone thinks Goldman is so fucking smart,” he railed. “Just because Goldman says this is the right valuation, you shouldn’t assume it’s correct just…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses -…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“This generation of Wall Street CEOs could be the ones to forfeit America’s trust. When the history of the Great Recession is written, they…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world,…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin