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. Kenneth C. Griffin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent. Kenneth C. Griffin Read Quote
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. Kenneth C. Griffin Read Quote
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. Kenneth C. Griffin Read Quote
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. Kenneth C. Griffin Read Quote
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. Kenneth C. Griffin Read Quote
