Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes
I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
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One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.
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I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
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When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.
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I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
