Lloyd Blankfein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No one would have lived there, especially from my neighborhood or your neighborhood.
We ended up in Goldman.
You went the entrepreneur route, and I stuck it out climbing the greasy pole at Goldman Sachs.
Well, I got to tell you, it's not optional.
It's not as if it's a calculation.
So it's all of my career.
You are who you are.
You get stamped.
When I first started writing the book and I started it and then I stopped for a while, I got out 64%
when I started it.
And I realized I left home.
I left East New York when I was 16 and I went to the hallowed halls of Harvard, which of course was a huge culture shock.
But the point was I did get away.
But that 16 was exactly a quarter of my life.
And I was sort of ruminating on how...
you get stamped in your early life and you never shake it.
You can lean towards it.
You can lean against it, but you're never going to shake it.
You are, you know, it's Papa.
That's a quote, that great philosopher, Popeye.