In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.
It is incredible to come to work every day surrounded by individuals whose insights and efforts place us at the forefront of finance.
My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.
Those who have enjoyed the benefits of our system more than ever now owe a duty to protect the system that has created the greatest nation on this planet.
I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.
I have an economics degree from Harvard.
If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.
The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how you win.
The key to our business, it's a lot of research.
We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.
Senator Rubio is uniquely qualified to lead our nation with conviction and courage to tackle the pressing issues of our time, whether it's strengthening our military, ensuring the safety of our people, or lifting the weight of government from our shoulders.
There will come a time and place it will be appropriate for us to consider going public.
I'm the CEO; I'm the one who should be looking out for risk.
It's important for me to be No. 1.
As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.
When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i's and crossing the t's when it comes to risk management.
The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.
Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.
The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive was not in my range of realistic scenarios.
