Rick Santelli Quotes

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Rick Santelli

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 12, 1953

We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?

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Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.

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I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as Democrats unhappy.

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Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that.

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One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

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I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on.

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How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard.

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Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

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The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

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The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.

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Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

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When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

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I try to avoid political ties.

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In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

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I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

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I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

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At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

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The government is promoting bad behavior.

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If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

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You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

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