Lloyd Blankfein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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The difference between a great actor will get any part he or she wants in Hollywood and the second best one, you know, may have to like wait tables at night.
You know, I wasn't cursed by being a great athlete.
And so I didn't have to, I wasn't tortured into thinking, should I go, you know, should I dedicate myself to sports and athletes or should I try, you know, strive to do well in classes and school and get another guy?
I didn't have that.
But imagine the unfortunate person who's the best athlete his high school ever produced, gets a minor league baseball contract and from the minor league, something like 2%.
eventually make a living out of, you know, enough money, you know, become professional.
You know, you get into a very rarefied area when you're talking about the people who are the best at what they do, where the market only rewards and can only give a full-time job opportunity to people who are in, you know, 0.001% of that field.
when we had the big financial crisis, the one that was like in 07, 08, when the regulators wanted to make sure that this kind of thing never happened again.
Well, the only way you can make things sure that once you're in the risk-taking world, anything can happen.
Risk is risk, and you don't always know the consequences of it.
And if you try to legislate
Risk, you know, you may think you're protecting the world from the 100-year storm, but you're also going to forego the 99 years of in-between when there was growth.
You know, the firm at that point had just gone through a period where it had, you know, big losses and people were gun shy.
And, you know, you'd think a risk manager is always trying to repress people from taking risk.
Sometimes a good risk manager has to promote the idea that people take risk because that's what you're there for.
And if you don't take risk, you don't move forward.
There's no growth.
You can't be an entrepreneur.
You've been an entrepreneur.
You can't be entrepreneur unless you take risk.
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