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We are today engaged in a war. It is an economic war over our sovereignty as human beings with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” means the right to create wealth through our labor and to enjoy the fruits thereof. The battle now is over who has the moral, the ethical, and the legal right to the fruits of our labor. Are we to be free, or are we to be slaves? Just whose money is it anyway?
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I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
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Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
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You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws.
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The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
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I'd rather look back at my past and say, "I can't believe I did that!" instead of saying "I wish I did that.
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People come and go, but life is simply about seeing who cares enough to stay.
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A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple.
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For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
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Money is a form of wealth. But wealth is not necessarily money. Wealth encompasses much more than material possessions or cash; it includes resources. My book is all about wealth creation. This has been my theme, my philosophy for years. It’s all about wealth creation.
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Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never gonna have a recovery.
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I strongly believe in the fact that there’s still plenty of money and plenty of private equity capital available around the globe. What are in short supply are great entrepreneurs and great teams. A trading opportunity or a company’s biggest challenge is and has always been the team behind it. There’s enormous change under way in every facet of the world. Some is technology driven, some is market driven. All that change creates unprecedented opportunity, but to take full advantage of such opportunities I mostly focus on the team. The right teams and right people behind those opportunities always win. There is no secret sauce. Trading and investing has, in my experience, boiled down to building relationships and exchanging value. It consists of striking the right balance between backing and interacting with the right teams with the right business model at the right time and with the right amount of money.
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If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
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Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
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Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.
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Forget the housing, bond or derivatives bubbles … Fraud Is the Biggest Bubble of all time.
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My favorite people are the ones that can make any unfunny joke hilarious by just laughing.
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Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.
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Money does not change people, it unmasks them.
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In Life you don't get what you deserve you get what you negotiate...
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Today we tend to focus on the unemployment rate being low. But just creating jobs isn’t the point. Many of the jobs people have today don’t even pay a living wage. Our focus needs to be on creating wealth, not just jobs or earning a wage.
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The best way to protect yourself and your family in this time of uncertainty is to create wealth for yourself.
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I remain fundamentally optimistic about Wall Street as a marketplace and as a vehicle for wealth creation. Its future will rightly depend on several variables, chief among them being human choices; whether they be rationally, emotionally, subjectively or objectively made. Financial engineering taught us that if it could be quantified, it could be qualified. We learned about how to use leverage and have abused that knowledge for a myriad of reasons. We became practitioners of the transaction-based model, but forgot that long before the abacus there was trust and integrity, anchors of relationship-based models common with Middle East and Asian markets. It goes back to a handshake, the first and enduring example of mutual consensus.
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Always remember ... You are not designed for everyone to like you. Get used to it.
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