Mary Schapiro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.
-- Mary Schapiro

#Opportunity #Balance #Target
Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business. The threat to drop research coverage if Piper were not selected as the lead underwriter for a secondary offering was totally inappropriate and undermines the integrity of the market.
-- Mary Schapiro

#Integrity #Offering #Banking
I work on weekends, but from home.
-- Mary Schapiro

#Home #Weekend
The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.
-- Mary Schapiro

#Media #Goal #Information
The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
-- Mary Schapiro

#Writing #Thinking #Agency
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.
-- Mary Schapiro

#Writing #Law #Done

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed.
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

Mary Schapiro famous quotes

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