I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think… — 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
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
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
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
At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share
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
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
Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share
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
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
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
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
The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system. — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share
There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share
