Top 164 Quotes & Sayings by 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.

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.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

What I'm going to do is I will eliminate everyone in the comms team, and we'll start over.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I speak with the right pronouns. It's 'we' and 'our.' It's never 'me' or 'I.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

There are always myriad choices in life - some work out, some don't, and you just have to focus on the present.

I'm very close to Jay Sekulow. We know each other very well. Trust Jay.

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.

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

My dad was in a union.

I know that there was a public disclosure mechanism in my financial forms.

Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.

I am a straight shooter.

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.

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.

Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.

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.

We want diversity in the cabinet. We want diversity reflected throughout the government.

While Saudi Arabia tries to usher in the post-oil era, its citizens struggle to adjust to a more diversified capitalist society.

Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.

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.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

I've supported a lot of different people. I went to law school with President Obama.

I'm here to serve the country.

Reince Priebus - if you want to leak something - he'll be asked to resign very shortly.

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.

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.'

I can speak for my own actions.

Best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.

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.

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.

Trillions of dollars spent on foreign wars have done nothing to make Americans feel safer at home.

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.

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.

I believe in decentralized management that includes a lot of delegation, empowerment, and accountability.

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.

Some brothers are like Cain and Abel. Other brothers can fight with each other and get along.

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.

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.

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.

I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.

Whatever you think about me, I was pretty open about how I felt about people.

I've asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period.

I'm not trying to build my own brand.

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.

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.

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.

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.

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.

One of the things I can't stand about this town is the back-stabbing. Where I grew up, we're front-stabbers.