Lloyd Blankfein

You know, we have a lot of, again, young people just kind of starting out in their careers, likely listening.

I guess what advice do you have for young people that want to have a fulfilling career?

You know, beyond working hard and maybe becoming good at whatever you choose to do.

Anything...

Here's one thing I would say to the youngish, young, young people, and with all deference to the success of Peter Thiel, I think people should make themselves complete people.

I think you should get a, you know, your early life is for becoming a complete person, a range of activities for your own sake to make you appreciative of things and

and also for your commercial life because in the long run, you're going to get by and be good and get investors and have the goodwill of your colleagues and your subordinates because you're an interesting person.

You're the kind of person that other people want to deal with.

And if you make yourself so narrow and exalted

You know, your narrow silo, even if you make a lot of money in the first game, your life will be better and your commercial life will be better if you are more, and your resilience will be higher.

Learning history.

You know, it's a good thing to know that we've lived through times like this before.

You know, everybody talks about, oh, my God, you've never been this bad, never more polarized in politics.

You know, you say, well, we did have a civil war.

Well, that was a long time ago.

Well, guess what?

I was a sentient human being in the late 60s, young but still aware, when the National Guard was shooting people on campuses.

It was political, successful political assassinations

And, you know, the college-age kids were leaving the country and going to Canada to avoid the... I would say those were pretty... And by the way, internationally, Russian tanks in 68 went into Czechoslovakia.

I would say that was a bit more dangerous.