Arthur Levitt Jr.
United States
3 Feb 1931 // 9 Feb 2001
Financial Advisor
3 Feb 1931 // 9 Feb 2001
Financial Advisor
Quotes
It is not the pace of technology or the brilliance of innovation that guarantees the success of our markets, but rather an unyielding commitment to quality... Quality, at its broadest and most basic level, is the protection of the investor interest. This principle reaffirms a simple and salient truth-markets exist by the grace of investors.
We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market � a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature � whether crafted by tradition or technology � exists only to serve that primary purpose.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays