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

Lloyd Blankfein

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

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" No one at Goldman Sachs gets paid out of his or her own P&L. It matters how your business is doing, but it matters more how the firm as a whole is doing. "

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

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

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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 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I am one with the popular culture. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda. "

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

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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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