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.

Honor is like a match you can only use it once.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

False expectations take away joy.

For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital instead that we remain completely open that we are always involved and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.

The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.