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20 quotes by Lloyd Blankfein

Lloyd Craig Blankfein (born September 20, 1954) is an American business executive. He is the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He assumed this position upon the May 2006 nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson to United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little.... →

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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... →

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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... →

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In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more... →

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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.

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I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

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I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view.... →

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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... →

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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... →

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In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I'd make it to the Supreme Court.... →

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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... →

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The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all... →

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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... →

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