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" I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. "
Wilbur Ross
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" The United States is the least protectionist country in the world but has the largest trade deficit, while other countries are highly protectionist and have huge trade surpluses. This cannot continue. "
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" If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work. "
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" Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. "
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" There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade. "
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" There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions. "
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" The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do. "
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" Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. If we could figure out that the subprime thing was a train wreck that was coming, where were the regulators? "
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" There isn't a bank in the world that could withstand a run. They all borrow short and lend long, regardless of what they say. "
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" In many critical things, such as the very high purity of the aluminium we need in aerospace, we only have one producer. That's not a good formula. "
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" If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors. "
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" Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices. That's crazy. "
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" Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs. "
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" I think there's a big difference between the impact of trade agreements on corporate America and the impact on Mr. and Mrs. America. Corporate America has adjusted to them by investing lots of capital offshore... What we're doing is we're exporting jobs and importing products instead of exporting products and keeping jobs. "
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" Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one. "
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" I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot. "
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" If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don't have to use it. "
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" If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on economy. "
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" We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit. "
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" Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals. "
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" To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen. "
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" My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated. "
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" A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period. "
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" I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade. "
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" It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation. "
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" Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. "
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" Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports. "
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" Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage. "
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" Enforcement is a very important part of the administration strategy. We think that even our friendly nations should live by the rules, and if they don't, we will intend to enforce things against them. "
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" Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel. "
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" We'll be aggressive on trade because we know that deals that have been made historically have resulted in the great loss of manufacturing jobs, a great amount of closed manufacturing businesses. We don't want that to continue. "
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