Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes
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Walk across any of the trading floors - they are full of 29-year-old kids. The capital markets of America are controlled by a bunch of right-out-of-business-school young guys who haven't really seen that much.
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It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.
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When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which it's created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.
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As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.
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As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.
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I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.
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The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
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Citadel's Capital Market division plays an important role in our nation's financial markets. Our broker-dealer is the largest market maker in options in the United States, executing approximately 30 percent of all equity option trades daily.
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Don't act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.
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It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
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The key to our business, it's a lot of research.
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It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance.
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It's important for me to be No. 1.
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It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.
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Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.
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The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive was not in my range of realistic scenarios.
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I have known Senator Rubio for a number of years, and he is an inspiring, courageous, and bold leader who embodies the American dream of freedom and equal opportunity for all.
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My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.
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Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.
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We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.
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Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.
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I get very worried that people that are buying bitcoins don't really understand what they're participating in other than the headline stories that it keeps going higher and 'I want to make sure I don't miss this opportunity to make some money.'
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If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.
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I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.