Lloyd Blankfein
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first heard Jun 2026
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And different people have different views about these things.
And he was kind of a personality like that in a different way.
But, you know, when I first read the book as a young guy, I was focused on the flaw part.
And I said, oh God, this was a tough human being.
I didn't think terrible, but tough and this.
And then after 40 years of trying to get stuff done and build in a business and try to influence people to do what I wanted them to do when they didn't wanna do it and the sacrifice I had to make and evaluating what I got done and the effort it took, I reread that Robert Moses book and all of a sudden his achievements
started to go up.
And the other flaws kind of stayed the same.
They didn't get better, but I became, I kind of valued him more.
What it showed was, again, it was less about Robert Moses at this point than it was about me because I had changed because as a result of trying to get things done and it made me appreciate the degree of difficulty of his achievements more than I had
No, 33 or 30, yes, I think.
And there was no template for it, really.
And, you know, the idea of something that, you know, we can get, you know, because democracy was pejorative, demos.
It was anarchy.
And that's just, like, crazy.
And by the way, that was, if you read a book, I just read a book on the Constitution, that was even debated.
And yet, despite the self-evidence of the rules, they still had us, you know, they debated slavery.
And by the way, it's not that they didn't know it was wrong at the time and they missed it.
No, they knew.
They knew.
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