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.… — 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
