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" Walk across any of the trading floors - they are full of 29-year-old kids. The capital markets of America are controlled by a bunch of right-out-of-business-school young guys who haven't really seen that much. "

Kenneth C. Griffin

America

Much

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World

" It's important for me to be No. 1. "

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" It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create. "

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