Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.