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

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.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

If you value your words people will not ask you to make any promises.

You and your opponent want the same thing. The only thing that matters is who works the hardest for it.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm just riding the wave until it hits the shore.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

And in the end, letting go was a lot like finding love. i had to learn to say goodbye to the one who gave me the courage to say hello.

'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

I feel more like an environmentalist since I've been up here. There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.