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

Lloyd Blankfein

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" With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold. "

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" 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. "

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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. That didn't work out the way I planned. "

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" My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch. "

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" Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life. "

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" I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was. "

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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 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. "

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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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" You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them. "

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" At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero. "

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" 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 be absorbing that kind of a new trick. "

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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 stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41. "

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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. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise. "

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" I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love. "

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" Every time I get accustomed to low volatility, like we were towards the end of the Greenspan era, and we think we have all the levers under the control... something erupts to remind us that the idea that anybody is in control of everything is hubris. "

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" Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days. "

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" 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. "

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" 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 after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. "

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" 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. "

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" Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people. "

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" 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. It belongs to regulators and legislators who represent the body politic. "

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" Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are. "

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" 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. "

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" If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems. "

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" I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous. "

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" To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer. "

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" 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. "

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