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“Do people have confidence? I think the real confidence you need is the confidence in your outlook, and I think people are pretty confident it is a low-growth world.”

People Thinking World Needs Real Growth Lows Outlook Have Confidence

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“Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.”

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“The investing public understands that you need to do things to position yourself.”

Needs Position Investing

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“In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.”

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“I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now.”

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“In each business, there is a process, or a delivery system or information system, that is changing rapidly under them.”

Process Information Delivery Information Systems

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“As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation ... what they think of it is, "Hard to hold my margin. I'm under margin pressure. I'm under sales pressure. I'm under cost pressure."”

Thinking Persons Hard Whole Force Cost Pressure Margins Underestimated Deflation

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“I asked one retailer, I said, "Let me ask you, are you going to raise prices next year?" They looked at me and said, "Not only are we not going to raise prices, we're going to have to lower prices, increase the quality of the goods, and turn the inventory quicker."”

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“We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.”

Thinking Individual Easy Picks Retail

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“Not everybody has experience in drilling for oil in the Permian Basin, but the same thing is happening in every industry everywhere in some manner.”

Industry Happenings Oil Drilling

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“Everybody is talking about synergies. You've got to take out every cost you possibly can. You have to position yourself as your services change.You have to think about in five years from now what is going to happen technologically to you. And then you do have to think about M&A or your balance sheet, and you have to think about everything in the context of, "Am I prepared to meet that challenge?".”

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“The reason you're put in the CEO chair is because a company is facing these issues and you've been designated the person best to organize around them. I think that people are pretty energized around trying to figure this out.”

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“The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.”

Environment Executives

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“The challenges, the changes we're talking about often seem to them like unbelievable opportunities to deliver a product quicker, better. If you can improve the quality, lower the cost, and improve the turns - and you can do that because your information systems, your delivery systems, are better because of technology - well, you see that as a wonderful opportunity to gain market share.”

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“Digitization has created opportunities for everybody to accumulate information in a way they were never able to, and analyze it with a speed that just wasn't there.”

Way Able Opportunity Information Speed

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“Everybody is looking at their base business and saying, "What else is it? Sure, we do this, but while we're doing that, what else do we know about our customer, and what does that enable us to do?" That comes from the access to information and the ability to analyze it with a speed they never had. I think everybody is thinking that way.”

Thinking Knows Way Doe Ability Information Customers Speed Access Access To Information

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“I've always said this: I've never seen a Michelin three-starred restaurant that was a buffet. They usually serve à la carte. I do think the delivery of a specific service, a specific advice for a specific reason, is the way you get the equivalent of a Michelin three-starred relationship.”

Thinking Way Said Reason Three Advice Restaurants Delivery Buffets

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“John Cryan and I worked together at UBS, and I think John is one smart, hardworking individual, and I wouldn't bet against John. I wish him well.”

Thinking Wells Together Individual Wish Smart Hardworking

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“I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.”

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“I worked at Drexel Burnham and DLJ, and then I worked at a financial conglomerate that had 60,000 people - there was a difference. But we went to the schools and said it's the same. The experience I had in 1992 is exactly what you're going to get in 2002.”

People Said School Differences Financial

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“By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that when he or she came out of school in 1986, that it was different. How would they know? We've got to admit that.”

Knows Way Different School Jobs Changed Directors Understood Not Sure

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“The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.”

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“We're a small part of this ecosystem. When we go to a school and talk about investment banking, they are these monster financial conglomerates, and so we end up in the same pot. That is still an issue for us.”

Stills Ends School Issues Investment Financial Monsters Pot Banking Ecosystems Small Parts Investment Banking

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“It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.”

Thinking Looks Hard Effort Generations Talent Fields Findings Compare

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“One of the great parts about my job is I travel the world. I was in India right before the [Narenda] Modi election, and I don't think he was the frontrunner until the end.”

Thinking World Ends Jobs India Election Travel The World

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“It was phenomenal to see what was going on there. I came away from there so energized about India, and I was pretty sure that [Narenda] Modi was going to win an election that wasn't easy to see.”

Winning Easy India Election Phenomenal

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“I went to Brazil, and you get on the ground and you see it, and you could tell the government was in trouble two years ago. This was just going to sweep the government aside, and it was a force you could feel. Brexit, the same thing.”

Feels Years Two Government Force Trouble Years Ago Two Years Brazil Two Years Ago

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“You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.”

World Technology Wave Populism

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“The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.”

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“There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.”

Knows Desire Seeing Generations Solutions Millennials

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“I do think [in USA] is a need for change. There is something wrong when you have $20 trillion of debt and crumbling infrastructure at the same time, and really fewer people employed than have been. Something is wrong.”

People Thinking Needs Has Beens Debt Usa Fewer Employed Infrastructure Need A Change Crumbling Crumbling Infrastructure

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“I think people sense that - that there is something not right about that equation [in the USA].”

People Thinking Usa Equations

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“You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.”

People Numbers Behinds Situation Not Sure Pension

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“Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.”

Would Be Able Cost Lows Not Sure Pockets Globalization Too Deep Supercomputers

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“There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.”

People Thinking Difficult Argument Function Providing Globalization Difficult Things

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“I think that life expectancy over the last 10 years has increased dramatically. You're living longer.”

Thinking Years Lasts Expectancy Life Expectancy

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“You ever go out to a restaurant now? You can get quality food - you can go out and get the best food that was available 20 years ago. They'll put it on a plate, you'll sit in a plastic chair because nobody values the chair, the white tablecloth, the maître d', but they'll put on your plate some great food for what used to be available at Applebee's prices. There are some really nice things going on, some external values being delivered to people.”

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“The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.”

Dangerous Consensus Dangerous Things Complacent

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“There are only two people running [Donald trump and Hillary Clinton] - you have to pick one of two people, and it's not like I said Mickey Mouse was going to win. This is why, like you said about Brexit, inside of London I don't think they saw what was going on.”

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“If you're not exposing yourself to a non-consensus view somehow over the course of a day, you can reject them, but you should expose yourself to them.”

Ifs Should Courses Views Rejects Consensus Exposing Exposing Yourself

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“There was a time when people thought that if you piled a bunch of mortgages together, the top of the pile was AAA. There are a lot of things that become consensus.”

People Ifs Together Bunch Consensus Mortgage

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“I want to be clear. Who knows if [ Donald Trump] will be a vessel that people will get behind, it might not be, but there is a movement out there.”

People Ifs Knows Want Might Behinds Clear Movement Trump Vessel

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“A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.”

Thinking Bigs Technology Advantage Improvement Secular Millennials Taking Advantage Deflation

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“[Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it.”

Knows Know How Generations Car Advantage Not Sure Apartment My Generation Millennials

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“There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.”

Knows Opportunity Stuff Focused Healthcare

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“That is the brilliant thing about the millennials. They're not obsessing about, "Hey, there is not going to be a job for me" - they're trying to take advantage of how good a life they can have without having to create so much nominal income.”

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“Income is there to create quality of life, but you can share your car and get where you want to go, and you can travel the world by couch surfing.”

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“I think [millenials] are taking advantage of deflationary forces to improve their life while not maybe having to chase the nominal money that was needed to buy a whole car, a whole house, a whole couch.”

Thinking Whole House Force Car Needed Advantage Couches Taking Advantage

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“It is a very interesting world. I'm excited. It is much more optimistic than people think, and there is going to be huge job creation from all these things, and there are going to be huge life improvements.”

People Thinking World Jobs Interesting Creation Huge Excited Improvement Optimistic Very Interesting Job Creation

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“Remember, for 5,000 years people probably rode those horses. They probably felt that horses were a permanent part of civilization. Everybody has had this moment.”

People Years Moments Remember Felt Civilization Horse Permanent

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Born: 1958
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