Alex Berenson Quotes

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• Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
• Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the…
• The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller…
• Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
• The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made…
• Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
• Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with…
• Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
• Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.
• Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
• Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
• Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news…
• Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
• In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.
• Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
• Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make…
• For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
• Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them…
• Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
• For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish…

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