Lloyd Blankfein

Since then, I've met people who've walked across deserts, people who grew up in war zones, so I don't want to compare stories because a lot of people had tougher stories than that.

But I didn't know a lot, and so I didn't have the burden of high expectations.

And that's a funny way of putting it, but I did label the first chapter kind of advantages as opposed to burdens because I realize now, now that I'm on the other side of the ledger, I understand just what a burden high expectations can be on people.

I did not suffer from that.

But...

I also didn't know what was going on in the world.

And I'd never traveled.

I'd never been on an airplane, for sure.

So anyway, when I went up, I saw Harvard.

It was the first time I really traveled.

My sister took me up.

So it was more of a culture shock.

I went to a high school that was a failing high school.

I don't think I'd read a book.

My board scores, I mean, I'm a pretty verbal person.

My verbal scores were very low.

My math scores were like almost,

I think it was kind of like a 790.

And what I was burning to do, the extent of my ambition, was to go to an out-of-town college.

And that was it.