Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Engineering

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Country
  • Anybody

• I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Opportunity
  • Things
  • Feel

• I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Great
  • Important

• I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Great
  • Health

• Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

  

  George Osborne
  • Great
  • Important
  • Long

• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • War
  • Education
  • Alone

• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see that. I think it would be great for the economy.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
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