Arthur Levitt Jr.

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

The dynamic nature of today's capital markets creates issues that increasingly move beyond the bright line of right and wrong...financial market participants grapple with questions in a gray area where there are no easy answers. It :s in this realm where judgment and integrity are indispensable for effective corporate governance.

Speech, Directors' College, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, California (1999)

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