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.
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.
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.
I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.
Citadel's Capital Market division plays an important role in our nation's financial markets. Our broker-dealer is the largest market maker in options in the United States, executing approximately 30 percent of all equity option trades daily.
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.
I did not forsee a day where the government had to intervene to bail out basically everybody.
Don't act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
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.
Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.
I am supporting many Republican candidates who embrace the principles and policies set forth in Speaker Ryan's vision and who are committed to moving our country forward on the right path.
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.
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.
Let me be clear: All I really care about is my kids know that their parents love them.
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.
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.
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'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.
