Lloyd Blankfein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You end up not living in the moment sometimes.
You end up walking out of a room and magnifying the things you would have, could have, should have done differently because you always grow up that perspective on yourself.
But in other ways, it's hugely helpful to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes.
But sometimes you wish you could turn that on and off.
And so the answer is, I don't know whether I'm the kid.
I am the kid from Brooklyn.
And I was the CEO of a very establishment, very influential firm.
And they got me for that job.
I'm both.
How was it sitting on a summer's day?
How was it coming in from outside?
When your house is in air condition, it's 97 degrees and you sit down on a plastic, you know, wrapped in plastic.
By the way, and you know, the sad thing is, of course, none of it ever made any sense because when my parents finally moved
away down, they moved to Boca Yoka number four, whatever development, you know, they got in West, you know, West, West, West Palm Beach.
They, the furniture was like pristine.
It was like still in the wrapper.
And, but, you know, again, we're talking about these things and it's not really the whole point of things, but I'm that way.
I'm still that way.
I still, if somebody gives me a new sweater, I don't want to wear it.
until it sat in my drawer for about eight years and is out of style because I just didn't want to get anything new dirty.