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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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" 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. "

Lloyd Blankfein

Gold

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Chip

Chocolate

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Than

Stocks

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

" 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. "

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Just

Raining

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

Lloyd Blankfein

Thought

Dangerous

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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