Sam Bankman-Fried

There are a lot of ways to do good in the world.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Equitable access for markets is really important, it is sort of fundamental to them being the neutral venues that they are.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

At some point, when you've given your message to voters, there's just not a whole lot more you can do.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Realistically speaking, I don't think anyone can maintain close contact and close communication with more than 15 people.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

When we think about what FTX represents, we want to be the best product that is out there.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I think that it is really important that there's federal oversight of the crypto industry.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX has shareholders and we have a duty to do reasonable things by them and I certainly feel more comfortable incinerating my…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

If you imagine an election where everyone running on both sides of the aisle for every race was an amazing public servant,…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

If you look at carbon produced per dollar of economic activity, crypto is not a huge outlier.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The moment that a bunch of brokers, including Robinhood, restricted buying of Gamestop, like literally that hour hundreds of millions of dollars…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

When you're talking about having an impact on the world, I think that the point at which there's nothing more to do…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

It's a really messy system where there is no interoperability between different platforms. There's no ability to see a Tweet on Facebook.…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We have financial audits, both for FTX U.S. and FTX International. Each year. We have regulatory oversight, again, from a number of…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We're really excited to support candidates who are making a point of putting pandemic prevention as one of their core policy positions…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We saw a social network choose not to censor misinformation in 2016 and got burned for that decision, then we saw them…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I think it has historically been the case that crypto has been substantially more lightly regulated with much less oversight than traditional…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

If you do something to see if it works, and then it doesn't work, was that a valuable educational experience for you…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We're going to be doing what we can to try to get news about FTX out there and get more eyeballs on…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The things that matter most are the things that have long-term impact on what the world will look like.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We are the most regulated crypto exchange by far. We are regulated by some definition by more regulators than any exchange of…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

There's huge amounts of good that can be done by a government that works constructively... versus a zero-sum vision of government.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I don't think it is making a lot of sense to be forcing less-wealthy users to access markets in a less direct…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The single thing I'm most worried about for FTX is that we become slow and dysfunctional.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

There's been a substantial re-rating toward looking for at least likely or plausible pathway toward profitability being a core component of an…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

When it comes to policy, I'm not very active on the campaign-contribution side, but I am very active on the engagement side.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We've been very actively seeking out projects with compelling use cases that we can invest in.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

So, after graduating MIT I went to work at Jane Street Capital for about three and a half years. It was a…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

You pretty quickly run out of really effective ways to make yourself happier by spending money.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We would love to have more clarity around the right way to get licensed and registered for digital assets.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

It is easy to get lulled into thinking that everything you do is all you can do - but you're not thinking…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

When I feel burned out, usually that means I have to take a night off or get a 10-hour sleep for a…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Having trust with consumers that things will work as advertised is incredibly important and if broken is incredibly hard to get back.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Ideally, I would want FTX to become the biggest source of financial transactions in the world.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I think it's important that people push themselves to achieve what they can but not push themselves beyond that point, to the…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I didn't know anything about crypto when I first got involved. I barely knew what a blockchain was.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I want to do what's right for the country, and not optimize for people saying nice things about me.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I want to be in a position where when we work with people, we're a little more generous than we have particular…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I am legitimately worried about doing things that will make people view me as partisan when it's not how I feel.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Lack of trust is an enormous transaction cost, and I underestimated this when I first got into business.

— Sam Bankman-Fried