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" When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Me
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Stocks
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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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" 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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" 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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" My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch. "
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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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" Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people. "
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Gone
Generation
" 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
" I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that. "
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Nerd
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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. "
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Business
Education
Group
" If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems. "
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Deal
You
Problems
" You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them. "
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Things
Through
You
" I am one with the popular culture. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Popular Culture
I Am
Popular
" There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing. "
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Line
Things
People
" Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are. "
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Markets
Will
Where
" 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. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Job
You
Office
" I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Chip
Chocolate
Cookie
" 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. "
Lloyd Blankfein
Decision
Financial
Growth
" 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
" 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
" If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do. "
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You
Know
Time
" 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
" 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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Work
Well
Years
" 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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You
Great
People
" I never thought I would tweet - I thought it was too dangerous. "
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Tweet
Thought
Dangerous
" At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero. "
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Zero
Day
End
" 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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People
You
Work
" 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. "
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History
Know
Worth
" 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
" 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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Own
Doing
Her
" Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda. "
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Agenda
You
Where