Schapiro Quotes

#1. It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity.

Mary Schapiro

#2. I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

Mary Schapiro

#3. The universe is bigger than anything that can fit into your mind.

Ava Dellaira

#4. In my case, there's no revolving door ... I won't be going back to government.

Mary Schapiro

#5. If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.

Miriam Schapiro

#6. When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

Miriam Schapiro

#7. I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

Billy Corgan

#8. We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

Mary Schapiro

#9. I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.

Casey Affleck

#10. Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.

Miriam Schapiro

#11. We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.

Miriam Schapiro

#12. 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

#13. Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

Miriam Schapiro

#14. 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

#15. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mary Schapiro

#16. 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

#17. I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Miriam Schapiro

#18. I came in with the intention of serving as long as it made sense for me to do so. The election was a natural moment to think about whether I wanted to stay longer, and I'm thrilled to turn the reins over to my longtime colleague Elisse Walter.

Mary Schapiro

#19. Love always deserves a chance.

Deanndra Hall

#20. Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

Juvenal

#21. Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

Heraclitus

#22. Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?'

Mary Schapiro

#23. There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable.

A.E. Samaan

#24. The movement of abstract art ... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Meyer Schapiro

#25. I work on weekends, but from home.

Mary Schapiro

#26. When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

Mary Schapiro

#27. Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Meyer Schapiro