Quotes by Ken Moelis

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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.

Car

Generations

Millennials

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.

Millennials

Technology

Thinking

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.”

Cost

Pressure

Thinking

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.

Directors

Jobs

School

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.

Able

Information

Opportunity

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

Real

Thinking

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.

Doe

Information

Thinking

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?”.

Talking

Thinking

Years

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.”

Inventory

Quality

Years

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.

Crumbling Infrastructure

Thinking

Usa

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Doe

Drilling

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Election

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Exposing Yourself

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Horse

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India

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Oil

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Quotes by Ken Moelis

Ken Moelis

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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