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" I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college. "
Lloyd Blankfein
People
Always
School
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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 almost a winner take all. "
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You
Door
Path
" I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise. "
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Point Of View
Time
Look
" 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. That didn't work out the way I planned. "
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Experience
Own
Life
" There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Hard
Golf
Baseball
" Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Agenda
You
Where
" All you can do is the best you can do. "
Lloyd Blankfein
You
Best
" In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Other
Sense
You
" The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong. "
Lloyd Blankfein
More
Right
Wrong
" 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 upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission. "
Lloyd Blankfein
You
Stairs
Think
" It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Manufacturing
Energy
Go
" I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.' At the end of the day, the United States is the biggest economy in the world, and the dollar is the reserve currency in the world. I think it behooves us to act in a much more responsible way. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Day
End
I Am
" 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 get close. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Events
Best
Say
" 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 go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues. "
Lloyd Blankfein
America
Business
Government
" When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Me
Than
Stocks
" 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
Fact
System
Capitalism
" Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Voice
Strive
Ambition
" The list of things that are conventional today that I use every day that I thought would never make it is a very long list. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Thought
Today
Day
" My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Just
Like
Raining
" You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Things
Through
You
" I read a lot of history, and I know that once upon a time, a coin was worth $5 if it had $5 worth of gold in it. Now we have paper that is just backed by fiat... Maybe in the new world, something gets backed by consensus. "
Lloyd Blankfein
History
Know
Worth
" 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, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know. "
Lloyd Blankfein
People
Thought
You
" The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Way
Same
People
" As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Champion
Environment
Job
" You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational. "
Lloyd Blankfein
You
Great
People
" I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Tweet
Thought
Dangerous
" To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Extent
Late Bloomer
Late
" Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Last
Gone
Generation
" I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Work
Well
Years
" 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, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us. "
Lloyd Blankfein
People
Time
Money
" 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
Growth
Wealth
People