Arthur Levitt

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

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

I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.