Lloyd Blankfein
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678 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Lloyd Blankfein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like they want affirmation and they're insecure and the kids don't always like them.
People are a lot more normal
than you think they are.
And people are a lot more insecure and a lot more, and sometimes the most successful people that you know are driven by insecurity and their flaws or things like that.
So you also have to be lucky that the ball has to bounce.
You could be the fastest runner in the world
But the Olympics are once every four years.
And if you peak in the wrong year, you'll never medal in the Olympics, even though you were the fat.
You know, so I got to be CEO of Goldman Sachs because my predecessor got nominated to be treasury secretary.
Had he not been that, maybe he would have lasted five more years in the job.
And maybe I would have been
too old for it at that point or something.
So there's a lot of fortune, there's a lot of luck, but I wouldn't exaggerate the skill set required or the degree of work required is beyond the grasp of many of your listeners.
It's not.
The difference between somebody who's really, really good and somebody who can't make it is not that great.
You know, when you think of a golf tournament and somebody wins a golf tournament by one stroke and there's six people tied for second, one stroke behind the winner, that's a very low margin of victory.
And a lot of life is like that.
And sometimes it's winner take all where somebody is just ever so slightly better
But that thing stands out.
By the way, a lot of life is like that.
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