"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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"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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"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."

Change

"What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility."

Responsibility

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

Thinking

"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you."

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"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

Years

"Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up."

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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."

Selling

"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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"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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"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."

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