Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Baiju Bhatt

People have been like 'well you need millions of dollars to buy and sell stocks.' That sort of idea was thrown out of the window with online brokerages like E-trade and Fidelity, and today, we think that you don't even need thousands of dollars to trade stocks.

If I walk down the street wearing a Robinhood T-shirt, I get ambushed. It's kind of weird.

One of the things we say a lot internally is that we take money really seriously.

It's really, really, important that this country as a whole trusts its financial system.

Financial products are the last thing in the world that should be confusing.

When we first announced it, we had over a million people sign up to use Robinhood Crypto in the first couple of days.

It's really more convenient for people to have one app on their phone that is the go-to for that activity. We see an opportunity as we add more services and features to Robinhood to really be on that one app for all customers' finances.

I think its very easy to try to launch things too quickly and do things too quickly and not pay attention to the details along the way.

The best thing to do with our markets is to have more people participate.

When we started Robinhood, there were a lot of naysayers.

The fact that a lot of people, especially younger folks, are not investing in the stock market is something we really think needs addressing.

We didn't build Robinhood to make the rich people richer. The mission is to help the everyman, the rest of us.

I have a cup of coffee for breakfast every day, but I don't have a go-to food. Sometimes it's a cup of yogurt, sometimes oatmeal, most of the time nothing.

When I get up in the morning I usually check Twitter.

For many users, cryptocurrencies are going to be their first foray into investing, and we want to be there.

I like to have prolonged blocks of time where I don't have meetings scheduled.

Maintaining a routine with my sleeping habits, even on weekends, has been a constant even when other aspects of life are hectic.

We fundamentally want to make people's lives simpler. So we will look for technology that works toward that end.

Free is a difficult model to get to work right. But it's better for consumers.

We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: 'Mediocre expectations,' 'middle-of-the-road expectations' and 'great expectations.' The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than 'great expectations.'

We want to say in unambiguous terms that we're a different type of financial services company.

Our move to offer free options trading is rooted in the belief that sophisticated investment tools don't need to be complex or reserved for the wealthy.

In order for us to be successful... we have to be able to and be open-minded enough to reinvent ourselves every six months.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, they had this resiliency.

I like beating the Bay Area traffic by getting into the office early, plus I get at least an hour most mornings to work on personal projects before I'm pulled into meetings.

To do your best work, you have to enjoy what you do and the people around you.

In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.

I have to be very diligent about making sure I'm taking care of my body and my mind, because if I'm not, the quality of my decision making goes down.

I'm by far my most creative and my most productive early in the day.

The financial services industry is failing the millennial generation.

I like to also have an hour and a half around lunchtime every day, set aside to exercise.

Everyone should be investing in our free market economy.

I sleep about six and a half hours per night.

If people don't think about their finances and get involved with building a financial trajectory early in life, it's kind of a substantial problem.

Companies should go public and they shouldn't raise $7bn before they do.

Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.

I think the customers that Robinhood will get at the beginning are younger, smaller accounts that are too hard for Schwab and E-trade to make money off anyway. They've neglected that market.

I don't use an alarm. I wake up naturally at 7 A.M.

Tinkering with, and building the products Robinhood ships brings me joy.

I'm not sure whether it counts as a talent, but I love playing 'Magic: The Gathering.' It's mathematical and intellectually challenging, and makes me feel nostalgic for when I played as a kid.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

I love America and its economy.

The majority of people in this country, they live paycheck to paycheck. If we can, long-term, change that trend and make it so that investing and saving money, more broadly, is less of a chore and something that people actually want to do, that would be success to me.

Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market's wealth creation.

The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.

Margin trading will drive the lion's share of our revenue, which is like a loan that lets people have more money to trade with.

There's just something very, very satisfying feeling like I have my investments right there in my pocket.

I don't think there's a particular technology that will set the trajectory for us moving forward. We don't want to be one of the companies that say AI is the next big thing, let's go build an AI application for Robinhood. That might not work. It might be awkward.

Most nights of the week I make it a point to get home in time to have dinner with my wife. It's a simple routine to maintain my work-life balance.

Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the world, rather than to enrich a few.

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father purchased for me when I was in high school. Both left a lasting impression on me, because they chronicle the lives of some of the most creative scientists of the 21st century.

Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests mixed into urban areas. The public transit is also fantastic and there are cat cafes everywhere.

We are legitimate players in the financial services industry.

I think all of these companies staying private for as long as they are is actually pretty bad.

I limit how often I let technology interrupt my day, which given my line of work, isn't always easy.

As consumers adopt crypto, we hope that they'll also be interested in trading equities and options.

While we should be moving very quickly and building great products for our consumers, it should never come at the expense of security, uptime, things like that.

I run outside almost every day of the week.

We generate a ludicrous amount of trades in $1 to $5 stocks. Because we're free, we're the only place where you can day trade stuff like that.

Investing is the biggest driver of wealth in our country.