Lloyd Blankfein

But I was watching it and I saw what everybody was doing and I didn't see a lot of panic.

I didn't see any panic really.

And the people under there, which was a sensible thing to do.

But again, to break the moment, I looked down and I said, by the way, are you going to finish your salad?

And it's amazing.

It was, you know, it was kind of funny at the time.

Ice in the veins.

I don't know.

Were you always even-keeled as a kid?

Yes.

Somebody said, Goldman, you're very good in a crisis, and that's why you go out of your way to create them, just so you can give you an opportunity to be good in a crisis.

And I would say that my normal resting state is to not be resting.

So I tend to be a little bit wound all the time, but I don't get especially wound in this crisis.

In fact, things slow down for me.

I'm used to seeing things like that.

They're in slow motion, and I become very...

sensitive to what the people around me are thinking and trying to get them on board.

Most of the time, like at Goldman and in most of life,

In a crisis time, the really important thing is just to get people to do their jobs and just don't be frozen and don't submit to the chaos.

Do you think that was like innate or was there something from your childhood that sort of helped kind of breed that temperament?