Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

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Kenneth C. Griffin

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 15, 1968

Senator Rubio is uniquely qualified to lead our nation with conviction and courage to tackle the pressing issues of our time, whether it's strengthening our military, ensuring the safety of our people, or lifting the weight of government from our shoulders.

Kenneth C. Griffin

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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I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.

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Blockchain's a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.

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Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.

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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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The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.

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It's a winner-take-all world.

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You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how you win.

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Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.

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The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

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One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.

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If you look at Citadel today, that's really - the founding principle of the firm is a real pursuit of talent, a pursuit of people who have a passion for finance, and a pursuit of individuals who make good decisions day in and day out.

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It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.

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We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

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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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In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.

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Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

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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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