Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote