American - Businessman | September 20, 1954 -
My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
Lloyd Blankfein
DayLieI CanRainingCouchJust
Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we have all the levers under the control... something erupts to remind us that the idea that anybody is in control of everything is hubris.
TimeControlThinkEndVolatility
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
LifeAmbitionVoiceYouGoStrive
I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.
SchoolNew YorkCollegeLawWallGo
If you do something really well, the entire world beats a path to your door. The number three, number five, number 400 player gets nothing. It's almost a winner take all.
PathDoorWorldWinnerYouThree
Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.
ChangeProgressEarlyAlwaysSee
I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium, with very steep stairs in the upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission.
JobThinkRememberYouStairsDrink
I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.
SchoolPeopleCollegeThoughtHigh
We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.
GreatDepressionStartFinancialAct
I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.
WorkLoveOverYearsOutPretty
Growth requires risk-taking. If you want to dampen risk and make sure you never have a problem, you do so, but that also will have an effect on growth. This is a decision that doesn't necessarily belong to financial institutions. It belongs to regulators and legislators who represent the body politic.
GrowthDecisionFinancialProblem
There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.
PeopleBadFairOverLineUp
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Lloyd Blankfein quotes