Arthur Levitt Jr.

United States
3 Feb 1931 // 9 Feb 2001
Financial Advisor

Increasingly, I have become concerned that the motivation to meet Wall Street earnings expectations may be overriding common sense business practices... Managing maybe giving way to manipulation; Integrity may be losing out to illusion.

Speech to the New York University Center for Law and Business, New York City. 'The Numbers Game' (1998)

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