Nicolas Acton

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

“Matt Levine, a Bloomberg columnist who writes a detailed and witty daily email dissected by Wall Street bankers, had been on vacation when the prospectus went live. The following Monday morning, he wrote in his email that the “We” trademark news was “the news item that caused me to absolutely lose my mind—the item that, if I were a slightly more dedicated financial columnist, would have had me on the next helicopter back to the office.”
― Eliot Brown, The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

“The FHA manual was perhaps the single most detrimental document in the history of urbanism in the United States. With a few lines of anti-density, racist planning policy, the federal government essentially forced the creation of the suburbs and the near-complete disinvestment of the inner city.”
― P.E. Moskowitz, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid”
― Valery Legasov