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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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" 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

" 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. "

" When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me. "

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Stocks

" 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. "

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Thought

Dangerous

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am one with the popular culture. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world. "

Lloyd Blankfein

Chip

Chocolate

" All you can do is the best you can do. "

Lloyd Blankfein

You

Best

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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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Manufacturing

Energy

" 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. "

" 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