Lloyd Blankfein

And then trying to convince people that their reputations are going to be made in these difficult times so they should act well because their colleagues –

are going to be very important 20 years from now.

Even when you're a junior person, you're the cohort that's going to run the world and your reputation with these people are going to be formed and impossible to change because of what you do today in these difficult times.

So, you know, I'd say authenticity, openness,

A real conviction that you're not the smartest guy in the room, especially at Goldman Sachs.

You know, to be run Goldman Sachs, you have no prayer of being the best at anything.

You're just a guy who's good enough to corral the people who are good to work for the platform and not kill each other.

And I already have four for my older kid.

I only have one producing well so far, but it's a gusher.

Well, I wanted to read the early chapter because I'd want them to know where I came from at some point when they're interested and get sentimental about their past and want to know where they derive from.

And I wish, you know, my dad died, my parents, both my parents died something like 35 years ago.

And I never really, I was not deep into adulthood when they passed away.

And, you know, at the time of my young adulthood, I was interested in myself.

Now, I wish they were around now because I'd like to talk to him now more than I wanted to talk to him then in some ways.

And that'll happen to my kids and grandkids, too.

And that was what I really thought of when I wrote the book.

I didn't know that it would get published.

I was writing...

Because it was such a formidable undertaking for me, I couldn't have conceived of it, but I incremented my way to a book by first saying, you know, I'm going to write the story that I'd like my kids to read when I'm not in a position to respond.

Well, I don't have a great connotation about – when I think about finance and what we do, I think about being the invisible hand that matches people who have capital with the people who need capital.