Chapter One: Nasdaq Comes Calling
1. Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, 1993, quoted in Janet Lowe, Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), 143.
Chapter Two: People First
1. Henry Blodget, “Exclusive Interview with Tony Hseih: How Being a Little Bit Weird Made Zappos a Fortune,” Business Insider, October 18, 2010, https://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-tony-hsieh-zappos-2010-10 (accessed December 2018).
2. Lydia Dishman, “Why Companies Make Bad Hires,” Fast Company, September 1, 2015, https://www.fastcompany.com/3050570/why-companies-make -bad-hires (accessed December 2018).
3. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (New York: HarperBusiness, 2001), 42.
4. Thomas Gryta, Joann S. Lublin, and David Benoit, “How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE,” Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-jeffrey-immelts-success-theater -masked-the-rot-at-ge-1519231067 (accessed December 2018).
Chapter Three: Triage
1. Paula Dwyer and Amy Borrus, “Nasdaq: The Fight of Its Life,” Businessweek, August 11, 2003, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2003-08-10 /nasdaq-the-fight-of-its-life (accessed December 2018).
2. John Chambers with Diane Brady, Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World (New York: Hachette, 2018), 41. Emphasis in the original.
Chapter Four: Buy the Winners
1. Dan Brekke, “Daytrading Places,” Wired, July 1, 1999, https://www.wired .com/1999/07/island-2/ (accessed December 2018).
Chapter Eight: Grappling with Growth
1. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (New York: HarperBusiness, 2001), 180.
Chapter Nine: Blood on the Tracks
1. Rachelle Younglai, “SEC Chief Has Regrets over Short-Selling Ban,” Reuters, December 31, 2008, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-cox/sec-chief -has-regrets-over-short-selling-ban-idUSTRE4BU3GG20081231 (accessed December 2018).
2. Tae Kim, “Buffett, Quoting Partner Munger, Says There Are Three Ways to Go Broke: ‘Liquor, Ladies and Leverage,’” Squawk Box, CNBC, February 26, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/buffett-says-out-of-the-three -ways-to-go-broke-liquor-ladies-and-leverage-leverage-is-the-worst .html (accessed December 2018).
Chapter Ten: The One That Got Away
1. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, scene 7, line 60.
2. Devlin Barrett, “Schumer Tilts Toward Offer by Germans for Big Board,” Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2011, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703992704576305384222703172 (accessed December 2018).
3. Cyrus Sanati, “The Big Deal About the NYSE’s Big Deal: Derivatives,” Fortune, March 2, 2011, http://fortune.com/2011/03/02/the-big-deal-about -the-nyses-big-deal-derivatives/ (accessed December 2018).
Chapter Twelve: Institutionalizing Innovation
1. Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar, “U.S. Equity Market Structure: Making Our Markets Work Better for Investors,” U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Public Statement, May 11, 2015, https://www.sec.gov/news/statement /us-equity-market-structure.html (accessed December 2018).
Chapter Thirteen: Don’t Look Back
1. Brittany Umar, “Adena Friedman to Rejoin the Nasdaq and Likely Be in Line to Lead,” Real Money, TheStreet, May 12, 2014, https://realmoney .thestreet.com/video/12704768/adena-friedman-to-rejoin-the-nasdaq-and -likely-be-in-line-to-lead.html (accessed December 2018).