Lloyd Blankfein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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You know, growing up, I think I went to Manhattan three times.
I never left the country, didn't fly on an airplane until after I left school and stuff, you know.
Yeah, I was pretty provincial.
It turns out that if you look at the lists of most successful people or wealthiest people in the US, you're not seeing a lot of Morgans or Rockefellers or any of these classical family names on that list.
You're seeing basically people
not necessarily growing up in poverty, but they were kind of middle-class people who did, you know, who did well.
These are not, you know, generational wealthy people coming along.
A lot of people were socially mobile in their lives and, you know, created wealth for others and, you know, and a piece of it stuck to them.
I think what's shocking, not shocking, but I think what would be good if everybody understood is that, you know, look, there are very, very few geniuses in the world.
I don't know if I've ever met one.
Yeah, or most of the people I meet...
I can't, I'm not saying I can do what they do, but I can see how they can do what they do.
Very few people have I met in my life where I can't even see the world through their eyes, or I can't even see how they do what they do.
Elon Musk may be a guy like that, where I don't know how.
Oh, yeah, a lot.
Don't forget, we underwrote his, you know, a lot of his stuff.
Oh, no, no, I'm saying he's very different.
I'm giving you an extreme case where a guy, but when people toss around the word genius, there's a lot of words that get tossed around, superstar, that get diluted.
The bigger takeaway is that I've known people who've done very, very well and in high office and high there, and guess what?
After they finish speaking, they say, how did I do?
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