Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.
You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.
Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.
Wall Street is stronger than ever.
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
Where I'm from, Toronto, is a big city.
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.
London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.
Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.
The U.K. needs to diversify - to become the technological as well as the financial centre of Europe.
I grew up in Mumbai.
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
Shanghai is Asia's New York.
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.
As the U.K.'s position as a global financial services hub weakens, our competitors will lose no time in attracting jobs in services from our shores.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
New York is really where my career somewhat started.
