Arthur Levitt Jr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Educational #Marketing #Growth
But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Acumen #Investing #Information
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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Emotional #Views #Intellectual
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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Order #Facts #Computer
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Past #Two #Erosion
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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Order #Way #Limits
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Thinking #Together #Groups
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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Thinking #May #Chance
We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Business #Technology #Sight
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Demise #Language #English Language
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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Technology #Competition #Innovation
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.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Break Up #Order #Lines
While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Impact #Years #Balance

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