Wilbur Ross Quotes

Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross
American Businessman
Born: Nov 28, 1937
Any Big Good Think World You
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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. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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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
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Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over. Wilbur Ross
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If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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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
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I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format? Wilbur Ross
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I think at the end of the day, the real sick man of Europe is liable to turn out to be France, not Greece, not Portugal, not Spain, not Italy. The reason is France is very uncompetitive to begin with on a global scale, and the measures that Hollande has been putting in have been very, very negative from the point of view of economic growth. Wilbur Ross
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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
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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. Wilbur Ross
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Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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Part of the reason why I'm supporting Trump is that I think we need a more radical, new approach to government - at least in the U.S. - from what we've had before. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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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
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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
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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. Wilbur Ross
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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. Wilbur Ross
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Confrontational things, admission of error, admission of defeat, restructuring, laying people off - those are not American ideals. Wilbur Ross
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Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel. Wilbur Ross
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