Ken Moelis Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.