83 Quotes by Wilbur Ross

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    I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.

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    A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.

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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.

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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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    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.

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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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    The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

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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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    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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