Lloyd Blankfein Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
-
Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
-
I have more friends in New York than Paris.
-
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
-
My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
-
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
-
The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
-
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
-
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
-
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
-
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
-
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
-
Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
-
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
-
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
-
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
-
I'm always preparing for a regular life.
-
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
-
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
-
Good walking leaves no track behind it.
-
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
-
Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.
-
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.
-
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.
