Maz Jobrani Quotes

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take - not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work.

We don't see any material impact of Brexit, either in the U.K. or in the neighbouring countries and the U.K.'s trading partners.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

If the ... President has much more than a hangnail, the stock market goes crazy.

Most important downside risks to the economy are political

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market

I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.

A no deal Brexit is a proposal so damaging to our future that it cannot be accepted.

I don't see a bright future for Turkey. It pains me. But I have some hope, I pray for it to be better. It is a blessed country, a NATO member, and was an E.U. candidate. These were things we wanted.

I've just seen it all - I've seen the bird flu, I've seen the Asian economic meltdown, SARS, 9/11, economic cycles.

Investment comes to a halt in a country where sit-ins and protest rallies lead to political chaos.

As the Bank of England has noted, Brexit is a unique experiment in the reimposition of protectionist barriers to trade.

We can't let Donald Trump put us at risk.

I am neither a sociologist nor a psychologist, but you don't have to be one to see that Turkey is in a vortex of problems, isolated from the world.

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.

I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.

I don't think anybody has any idea what the economic impact of Brexit will be.

A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.