Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

Don't act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.

Kenneth C. Griffin

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• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Actor
  • Overrated
  • Underrated

• Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Week

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Difficult

• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Control
  • Pride

• Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Country
  • Texas
  • Stand

• My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Weird

• Thus they shall not miss this particular branch of the many branches of the Law and will have no need to roam and ramble about in other books in search of information on matters set forth in this treatise.

  

  Maimonides
  • Law
  • Search

• So yes, the roles are getting more and more like me. But that's because Xena was so entirely unlike me. Most people aren't really aware of that.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • People

• I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Universe
  • Devil

• Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Past

• How proud upon your quarterdeck you stand,Conductor, Captain of the mighty bus!Like some Columbus you survey the Strand,A calm newcomer in a sea of fuss.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Proud
  • Sea
  • Calm

• Personality always wins the day.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Personality

• Be the poor silly ass And you'll always travel first class. Give 'em quips, give 'em fun, And they'll pay to say you're A–1. If you become a farmer, you've the weather to buck. If become a gambler you'll be struck with your luck. But jack you'll never lack if you can quack like a duck. Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Fun
  • Travel
  • Luck

• I'm just not very good at being happy all the time.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • History

• I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Way
  • Awareness

• To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Power
  • Vision
  • Moral

• Don't act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin