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Arthur Levitt

"I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups."

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Akiroq Brost

"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."

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Akiroq Brost

"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."

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Akiroq Brost

"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."

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"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."

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Akiroq Brost

"The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems."

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"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."

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Akiroq Brost

"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."

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Akiroq Brost

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."

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"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

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"Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors."
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"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."
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"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."
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"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."
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"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility."
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"One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order."
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"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."
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"The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues."
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"Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical."
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"It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole."
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