Top 15 Quotes by Michael Hintze

My grandmother was a Greenpeace supporter. We've always done that sort of thing; we've always believed in helping others - it's part of our ethos.

I enjoy giving money away. The more you give, the more you get.

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.

At the age of 61, my hip went. I was skiing in Chile with my son, and there was a turn, and I kept falling. I thought, 'What an idiot; what's going on here?'

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.