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" My obligation is to disclose companies in which I'm an officer, a director, or an investor. "
Wilbur Ross
Investor
Director
Officer
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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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Loss
" If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work. "
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Politicians
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Work
" The fundamentals are the U.S. is going to end up being a net exporter of natural gas. That's going to be wonderful to help our balance of payments, reduce our dependence on a lot of countries that aren't so crazy about us, and change many, many parts of what goes on here. "
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" Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one. "
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Bad
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" Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around. "
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" You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. "
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You
Day
More
" I think partly the decline in the peso was due to worry about renegotiation of NAFTA, but I think we also need to think about some other mechanisms for making the peso/dollar exchange rate a bit more stable. "
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Need
Worry
Think
" I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade. "
Wilbur Ross
Trade
Am
I Am
" China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice. "
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Country
Talk
Free
" We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit. "
Wilbur Ross
Deficit
Trade
War
" 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. "
Wilbur Ross
Country
Trade
United States
" Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon. "
Wilbur Ross
Act
Community
Congress
" 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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Strategy
Important
Live
" Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs. "
Wilbur Ross
Gas
Thousand
More
" We think, over the long term, the real key to value of a bank is does it have true deposits from true long-term customers? People who actually know the bank, live in the neighborhood, work there, maybe have a mortgage there, credit card... That, to us, is the key to a bank. "
Wilbur Ross
Work
Live
Long
" There are deep value opportunities in insurance stocks, which were beaten down because of their exposure to the subprime crisis, annuities, and commercial real estate. "
Wilbur Ross
Deep
Value
Real Estate
" One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces. "
Wilbur Ross
Kind
Business
Loser
" 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. "
Wilbur Ross
Me
Phoenix
Kind
" 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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United
United States
Shipping
" I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall. "
Wilbur Ross
You
Think
Wrong
" The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets. "
Wilbur Ross
Strange
Company
Good
" 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
Serious
I See
Myself
" I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other. "
Wilbur Ross
Think
Government
Cloud
" The reality is if something were to happen that cost China jobs - like, if they upwardly revalued the currency a lot - those jobs aren't going to come back to the U.S. They would go to Vietnam; they would go to Thailand. They would go to whatever country was the lowest cost. "
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Currency
Country
Back
" If people know you have the big bazooka, you probably don't have to use it. "
Wilbur Ross
You
Big
Know
" 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. "
Wilbur Ross
Crazy
Compliance
More
" 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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Out
Things
Train
" China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic. "
Wilbur Ross
Seems
People
Little
" It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation. "
Wilbur Ross
Sound
Important
Implementation
" The rules of origin in NAFTA need some tightening. Rules of origin are what let material outside of NAFTA to come in and benefit from all the taxes and tariff reductions within NAFTA. "
Wilbur Ross
Outside
Need
Taxes