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

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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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 - how exactly are you going to make money?

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.

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The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 19th, 1977

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