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When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.
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Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.
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Paid leave is worth every penny.
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In a financial crisis, only the Fed, as the lender of last resort, might stand between our economy and financial catastrophe. We must leave the Fed with the flexibility to provide liquidity in order to stop a financial panic.
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I'm doing my sit-ups and watching CNBC. Suddenly, somebody starts talking about me on television... The business has gone into a weird zone of visibility. For those of us who have done it for a long time, it's strange.
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When deals go wrong, you have no one else to blame, so you yell at yourself, and you yell at others.
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I didn't get to be successful by letting people hurt Blackstone or me.
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I have no first-strike capability. I never choose to go into battle first. But I won't back down.
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I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.
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I'm a consistent little person.
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In the Catholic schools, they spend much less money than the public schools, and they get amazing results. Private schools spend much more money than the public schools, and they get remarkable results.
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