"He looks at every dollar he has under management like it's his own dollar, and that gives him a certain credibility in terms of raising money from investors and keeping them satisfied over the long term," said Blair W. Effron, a co-founder of Centerview Partners, a boutique investment bank.
It undermines the government's credibility in terms of security.
Do you think that's going to enhance your credibility in terms of the respect that the public has for those two professions?
"He would be a terrific choice in many aspects of the job, and bring great credibility in terms of Wall Street," said Gary Gensler, a former senior Treasury official in the Clinton administration who was hired by Mr. Friedman at Goldman Sachs.
With that sort of data in mind, Edward P. Djerejian, director of the James A. Baker III Public Policy Institute of Rice University, said, "We're skeptical that it will be able to jump over this barrier, this obstacle of credibility, in terms of being a state-run media outlet".
Assemblyman Dov Hikind, the Brooklyn Democrat who represents an Orthodox neighborhood, said yesterday that the incident raised "the whole issue of credibility in terms of things that Hillary Clinton says and does".
I think the issue here is credibility in terms of who has the credibility by standing here and saying, 'I'm not going to cut taxes because I have a plan.' I have the credibility because I've saved the taxpayers, actually, over $4 billion over the last several years because of my management of the pension fund.
"I think Inter will give me even more credibility in terms of the national team.
"Nokia have given themselves a double challenge: to restore their credibility in terms of making hardware smartphones and succeed with the Microsoft Windows operating system, which lags in the market," the executive said.
ET: To have someone of that caliber ― who can literally wear whatever they want, whenever they want, choose to wear our stuff ― it gives us a lot of credibility in terms of the quality of the product and just speaking to it. .
