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" 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. "

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" We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners. "

Lloyd Blankfein

Business

Education

Group

" I am one with the popular culture. "

" 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. "

" 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 resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Just

Raining

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

Right

Wrong

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

" 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. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more. "

" 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. "

" The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system. "

" 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. "

" I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college. "

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Thought

Dangerous

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