Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes

I'm primarily just an investor.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.

In banking, it was my responsibility to deliver investment opportunities and solutions to hedge fund clients, and at Bloomberg, it's my job to break down news that matters to our viewers and readers.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.

It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge funds to compete with.

Investing is pure.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.