Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

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.

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

It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.

My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end ‘too big to fail‘ in our banking system.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In our firm‘s earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.

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

Business is business. I don’t manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.

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.

I don’t feel I’m at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That’s not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

The key to our business, it’s a lot of research.

It’s important for me to be No. 1.

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.

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.

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.

Don’t act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.

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.

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

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

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.

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

Let me be clear: All I really care about is my kids know that their parents love them.

We don’t have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.

I’m the CEO; I’m the one who should be looking out for risk.

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.

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

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

It’s a winner-take-all world.

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics – Gary Becker, Milton Friedman – what an unbelievable success story they’ve had in their field.

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.