Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Craig Blankfeinis an American business executive. He is the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He assumed this position upon the May 2006 nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson to United States Secretary of the Treasury...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth20 September 1954
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.
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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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America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,
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Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?
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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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If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.
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Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
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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.
I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.