“You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never to age and often do our best to avoid sacrifice.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central bankers have taken an activist turn.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The American Dream means any person can achieve prosperity through hard work and ingenuity because there are no inherent barriers in our society.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m a gay rights supporter. I’m a human-rights campaign initiative person.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Donald Trump doesn’t speak like a politician, and that’s made some people uncomfortable. In a world of political correctness run amok, his straight talk has been a breath of fresh air.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I know that there was a public disclosure mechanism in my financial forms.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Here is what I know. When you’re running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“A person that’s going to be super, super tough on Russia is President Donald J. Trump.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“It’s time to stop pretending negative rates have any redeemable value – besides the ability to stimulate the market for physical safes.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“President-elect Trump is inheriting a relatively strong economy, and markets are pricing in faster growth under his watch.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They would send you a cardboard box full of seeds; kids would sell them door-to-door in the neighborhood and then pick from a catalog of prizes. I bought myself a watch that way.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Trump’s divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won’t play well with the general public, either.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Reince Priebus – if you want to leak something – he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m not trying to build my own brand.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m here to serve the country.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Some brothers are like Cain and Abel. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“What I’m going to do is I will eliminate everyone in the comms team, and we’ll start over.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince’s name in the tweet, they’re all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I am not a politician. I’m an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters to help shape policy or try to balloon things or do tests on ideas or people for different jobs. I’m talking about nefarious, unnecessary, backstabbing, palace intrigue-like leaks.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“When you micro-analyze the approval ratings, there’s aspects, and the questions come in, ‘I love the president, but I dislike X, Y, Z,’ or ‘I like the president but dislike X, Y, Z.’”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I speak with the right pronouns. It’s ‘we’ and ‘our.’ It’s never ‘me’ or ‘I.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I can speak for my own actions.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“It’s not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Whatever you think about me, I was pretty open about how I felt about people.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is we were pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the RNC. But once I was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“If the leaks continue, we are strong as our weakest link. And I’ll say it a little differently in a pun. We’re strong as our weakest leak.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m very close to Jay Sekulow. We know each other very well. Trust Jay.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’ve supported a lot of different people. I went to law school with President Obama.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I like debating policy. I never once attacked personally Secretary Clinton. I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that’s been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally, I apologize for.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’ll tell you who he’s going to be president of. You can tell Donald: the Queens County Bullies Association. You’ve got to cut it out now and stop with all this crazy rhetoric.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“This is the problem with the leaking. This is actually a terrible thing. Let’s say I’m firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Do you know how many congressional liaisons we are going to have? I don’t either, but I told Pence, it should be four times whatever Obama had. I don’t know how many he had, but I’m telling you that didn’t work out.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“You know what this nation is? It’s a disruptive start-up. It was a group of rich guys that got together and said, ‘You know what? We’re going to break away from the other countries and start our own country.’”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“One of the things I can’t stand about this town is the back-stabbing. Where I grew up, we’re front-stabbers.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Twenty-nine years on Wall Street, and an Italian last name, not one trading violation… they can’t find anything. Because I would never dishonor my dad by hurting my last name by doing something stupid for money or for power.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“It has been a very successful life experience for President Trump to be President Trump. So let’s let him do that… Let’s see where the chips fall.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Neoconservative Republican President George W. Bush took office determined to aggressively export American democratic values through conflict. The Iraq war, a misdirected response to 9/11, tacked trillions of dollars on to the deficit while further destabilising the Middle East.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Progressive Democratic President Barack Obama swept into power hell-bent on forcing through a makeover of our nation’s healthcare system. The result was a costly new tax and failed programme, the Affordable Care Act.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Mr Trump is a different type of leader not burdened by rigid ideology. He does not think like a politician, nor does he talk or sanctimoniously moralise like one, making him an easy target for demonisation. However, he is an empathetic person who recognises the pain of America’s middle class.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Small businesses have suffered under the demands of Obamacare and community banks have scaled back lending due to stringent provisions of Dodd-Frank financial regulation.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I founded SkyBridge – an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street’s next generation of Wall Street’s entrepreneurs – in 2005.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can’t deny that. But it came down to more than luck.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Trillions of dollars spent on foreign wars have done nothing to make Americans feel safer at home.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I should have the opportunity, if I need to let somebody go, to let the person go in a very humane, dignified way.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I am a straight shooter.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m used to meanness. It doesn’t matter to me.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“There are good leaks and bad leaks.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest rates. How is it even possible? If interest rates are the price of money, is the marketplace broadcasting that money is on sale? Are we just giving it away?”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The Fed cannot save us from ourselves.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I think, ultimately, the post-Reagan era will end with Scott Walker being elected the 45th President of the United States.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The post-Reagan era has been defined by overspending as the result of ideological overpromises.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Scott Walker is going to tell people the truth – not with bombastic and self-congratulatory language, but in that endearing Midwestern way.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Better-paid workers buy more goods and services, increasing aggregate demand and baking a bigger economic pie for everyone.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“While we can’t begrudge companies for maximizing cost efficiency, we need to empower and properly train our workforce for the skilled jobs demanded in the 21st century.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Good debt accrues assets that generate positive returns and externalities.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“You’ve got to use the skill set God has given you, and I have the ability to connect with people.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’d like to expand the base of the Republican Party. I would like the Republican Party to be more inclusive, not less inclusive.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m a Republican. I’m probably not the cookie-cutter Republican that fits the litmus test of Republican Party politics. But I don’t want to be that.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I want to be a representative of what I hope will be a future bigger and broader Republican party.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m an American businessman. And I’m a very practical guy. I’ve supported a lot of different people.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I went to law school with President Obama.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that’s been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I like debating policy.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“America has always accomplished far more acting as courageous frontiersmen than weak reactionaries.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I have a lot of family members that served in the American military. I did not serve; I filled out the selective service. It’s one of the regrets for my life.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The better side of Wall Street is when it is acting as an efficient mechanism of capital formation and capital flow, which helps businesses invest.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“When you have steady inflows and global central banks hell-bent on stoking credit activity and inflation, money will flow into the most attractive areas.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Uber sees ride-sharing as a winner-takes-all war and subsequently is willing to offer below-market prices in a bid to crowd out the competition.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of issuing sovereign bonds to ease budgetary concerns.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m a businessperson. I’m used to dealing with friction.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don’t believe me, you can come into my basement; I’ll show you every copy.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’ve had a series of setbacks in my life, which I’ve written about.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I’m a team player. I’ve, you know, played team sports my whole life, at least as a kid. And I believe that you have to subordinate yourself to the greater good of the team.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“What I don’t like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don’t think that’s how it works in American business.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I can sit across the table from somebody that worked with me and my company that I founded and say, ‘Here are five things I don’t like about what you’re doing, and we have to fix it.’”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he’s out there himself and he’s being his fresh, authentic self, it’s very appealing to the people of the United States.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Donald Trump Jr. is a very honest, very high-integrity person. I have known him for a long time. I have an enormous amount of respect for him.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“All good entrepreneurs have to start somewhere with a dedicated plan to finish in a great place.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“We want diversity in the cabinet. We want diversity reflected throughout the government.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I grew up in the middle class.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“General Petraeus is a man that has the backbone that somebody like President-elect Trump would love.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Ben Carson is an incredibly honest guy.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The Chinese government does not like people betting against the yuan.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump’s electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“The most compelling economic and geopolitical story in 2017 will almost certainly revolve around China. The world’s most populous country bankrolled an economic boom with high levels of debt and leverage, with which the government is now forced to reckon.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Beijing is trying to split the baby between simultaneously liberalizing the economy and maintaining economic stability, but those two factors are increasingly mutually exclusive.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Only in 1999 and 1984 have we seen a persistently strong dollar and strong risk appetite harmoniously co-exist.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more diversified capitalist society.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I never read one book at a time.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I am a junk food eater.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I lived in London, went to the London School of Economics, do a lot of business in London, and have a lot of fun in London.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless about Wall Street. My first job there I basically got fired from.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend a lot of time on those two causes. I also tend to support military charities like Warrior Gateway, which helps guys transition from combat back into civilian life.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“There are always myriad choices in life – some work out, some don’t, and you just have to focus on the present.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“My dad was in a union.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
“We’re losing jobs in our manufacturing base, and those families that are going to be out of work over the holidays, that is a very sad thing. That is more governmental dependency. That is a reduced tax revenue for the state and for the federal government.”
― Anthony Scaramucci
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