Brad Katsuyama famous quotes

It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.
-- Brad Katsuyama

#Wall #Finance #Easier

My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.
-- Brad Katsuyama

#Past #Personality #Would Be

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.
-- Brad Katsuyama

#Realizing #Negotiation #Certain

I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.
-- Brad Katsuyama

#Rebellious #Circumstances #Streaks

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.
-- Brad Katsuyama

#Guy #Flow #Conviction

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.