Citadel CEO Ken Griffin at the American Business Forum this week:

KEN GRIFFIN: Do you know how great it is to go to dinner and people talk about their children, and they talk about their future, and they do so with excitement and enthusiasm? We lost that in Chicago in the last 10 years. Dinner in Chicago would be about crime, about cronyism, about failed policies in the state. It is so refreshing to be in a city where people talk about tomorrow. And I think that’s a really important topic here in a round table on business. Entrepreneurs are people that believe in tomorrow. It’s really tough to start a business. Like, don’t kid yourself. You don’t own your business, your business owns you. So you have to have a great deal of optimism about the future of where you live, the community you’re part of, the country you’re part of to start a business. And it is so great to see the optimism that we have here in Miami. It’s really special.

This is a particularly salient comment from Ken Griffin at this week's American Business Forum.

It reminds me of a conversation I had years back with a sales rep for a big manufacturing concern who had a 10-state territory that included Illinois although he wasn't from Illinois.… pic.twitter.com/IJRr6QggHE

– Dan Proft (@DanProft) November 7, 2025

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