Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

• Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  People, Rewards

  Bloomberg News, April 29, 2005.

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• Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Cutting, Organization, Two

  Institutional Investor Magazine, September 2001.

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• my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Opportunity, Years, Interesting

  Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine, Winter 2005.

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• Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Research, Best Business, Behinds

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• Risk is what you make of it.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Risk

  Chicago Mercantile Exchange advertisement,

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• There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Investors

  "The Age of Global Markets and the Global Investor". Presentation at 25th International SFOA Bürgenstock Conference, 2004.

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• We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Strong, Get Better, Flow

  "Citadel Boss Won't Be Hedging On Day Job". Chicago Tribune, March 2006.

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• We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Leader, Great Leader, Great Success

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

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Decision, Able, Politician

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• The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Matter, Mutual Fund, Ability

  "Justice Delayed". FTSE Global Markets, May/June 2005.

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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 its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Impact, People, Process

  "HEDGE-FUND GOD KEN GRIFFIN: Our Government Is Ruining Our Country--That's Why I'm Giving Millions To Mitt Romney And The Koch Brothers" by Melissa Harris, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2012.

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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.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Support, Gaps, Affair

  "A Wish List for Fixing Wall Street" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.

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• We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Magic, Banking, Wave

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• We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  School, Leader, Chicago

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