Words matter. These are the best Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Business is business. I don’t manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room… with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
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.
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.
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.
I have an economics degree from Harvard.
We don’t have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I’d break up the banking system.
Those who have enjoyed the benefits of our system more than ever now owe a duty to protect the system that has created the greatest nation on this planet.
When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s when it comes to risk management.
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
Don’t act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.
The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.
For choice, I prefer not to be a public figure. I don’t have Tom Cruise’s good looks. I don’t have a need to be on the front page of fill-in-the-blank.
In our first decade, I interviewed about five thousand people in pursuit of the talent that would create our future. As our success grew, we became known across the four corners of finance not just for our outstanding returns, but also for our outstanding people.
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.
I’m the CEO; I’m the one who should be looking out for risk.
It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance.
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.
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.’
Blockchain’s a very interesting technology that will have some very profound applications for society over the years to come.
We’re going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.
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.
We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.
My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end ‘too big to fail’ in our banking system.
