Tyler Winklevoss Quotes

Corporate trading is vicious in principle. The directors of such companies, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own … Negligence and profusion must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company

For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

Losing other people's money was terrible.

As for the Ministers, the Devil take them!

In 1985 five Senators had received contributions from Lincoln Savings and Loan, and had interceded on the bank's behalf with federal regulators. The same request was made of the governor who refused. You don't intervene in the regulatory process. It's law enforcement. It's like a parent ... calling the police chief to say, "Don't touch my kid." It's wrong. [The Senators' efforts delayed the closure of the bank, costing the taxpayers billions of dollars.

I never will ascribe to this government [Liberal Party] such wrongdoing as mere stupidity will explain.

Democracies can no longer tolerate bribery, fraud and dishonesty, especially as such practices disproportionately hurt the poor.

The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.

That's the last thing on Earth you should think about... There's just a whole lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin... It is total insanity.

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

I made lots of mistakes - the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

Al Sharpton doesn't even pay for his own suits.

Bill Morneau has betrayed the trust of Canadians over and over.

Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.

Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.