Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government,… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.'… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
If you do something really well, the entire world beats a path to your door. The number three, number five, number 400 player gets… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
Maybe bitcoin is a kind of a bubble. I don't like it. I'm not comfortable with it. I'm kind of an old dog to… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
