Lloyd Blankfein

I don't know.

I wouldn't have predicted that about myself, but I've now gone through.

We had the crisis of the century roughly every four or five years.

And it's always that way.

But it doesn't mean I like crises and I wouldn't go out of my way to volunteer to be in one.

It's just that when it happens, I generally have confidence.

I'm not trying to tempt the fates.

If I'm going to get discombobulated, everyone is going to get discombobulated before me.

And so I've done that.

And by the way, that taught me a lot about the people that you need to rely on because you can't really tell.

I mean, not to claim a phrase, but you can't tell a book by its cover.

And I went through, and maybe this is out of sequence, but I went through the financial crisis and we had people, I'm thinking one in particular, who was...

Great athlete, terrific guy, real man's man.

Did rodeos on the weekend.

He was terrible.

And here I am.

The co-president of the firm.

Here I am trying to teach people how to, me, trying to say you have to breathe.

And then there were people who didn't look like they could walk up a whole flight of stairs.

And they were really good.