There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior – carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
What if the slowdown in merger activity isn’t cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done? Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn’t make it right. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cover and a few articles before choosing to buy. Even if the material is truly unique, a consumer likes to try a little before buying. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
We talk about institutions that are too big to fail – I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
As a child, I always enjoyed – my parents used to have these little cocktail parties – and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren’t supposed to say. And in many ways, that’s what my job is today; it’s getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
It’s the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem. Andrew Ross Sorkin Read Quote
