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Lloyd Blankfein

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1832 total appearances

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And, you know, I don't know whether it's the effects of malnutrition or just eating a lot of fatty foods or whatever.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

But...

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

I, I, I wasn't, I wasn't short where I was growing up.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And then when I got to college, like the first day I'm walking with some of the people from my floor, we're going to walk into the dining hall.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I looked to the left, I looked to the right and I felt like a Valley between two mountains.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I said, boy, you guys are tall.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

You guys are tall.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And they looked at me and he said, no, we're not tall.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

You're short.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And I looked around and I said, you know,

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Gosh, you're right.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And it was the first time I thought of it.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

So I guess I didn't suffer from a bad ego at that point because I thought of myself bigger than I was.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

I read your story, too.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Again, it's not the same, but it rhymes.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Both Italian household, Jewish household, striving, very working class parents.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

And somehow we made it, punched above our weight and made it to fancy school.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

You and I both went to Harvard Law School.

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

Who would believe that for either one of us at this point?

Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me β€” Lloyd Blankfein

No way.