Kenneth C. Griffin

“There will come a time and place it will be appropriate for us to consider going public.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.”

“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.”

“It's a winner-take-all world.”

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

“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 am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.”

“Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“The key to our business, it's a lot of research.”

“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.”