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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
At the end of the day, it’s not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can’t always readily see in the early days. Lloyd Blankfein Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
