“I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.”

Don’t assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

I don’t even like good surprises.

I am in a traditional financial services business – but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption.

Cryptocurrency will change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.

Blockchain technology isn’t just a more efficient way to settle securities.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don’t work, and you’ve just got to just say: Let’s grind this baby to a halt.

Lots of people will give you advice and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.

Returns matter a lot. It’s our capital.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.

I love this stuff – bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology – and what the future holds.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

As long as you believe in yourself, there is no limit to the greatness you’ll do. The universe is magic I promise it’s true.

My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see I was right.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.