Citadel Head Ken Griffin Says His Career's 'Wake Up Moment' Proved Everyone's 'Always Selling:' And If You Don't Like It, 'Get Over It'

Citadel Head Ken Griffin Says His Career's 'Wake Up Moment' Proved Everyone's 'Always Selling:' And If You Don't Like It, 'Get Over It'

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says the secret to building any enterprise boils down to one blunt commandment: learn to sell. What Happened: Speaking to MBA candidates at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, the billionaire hedge-fund founder recalled visiting an early backer and spotting a gift-shop plaque that read, “If we're all going to eat, someone has to sell.” The $10 tchotchke, he told students, became his career's “wake-up moment…