Lloyd Blankfein famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
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You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
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Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?
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America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,
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If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.
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Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.
-- Lloyd Blankfein
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
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Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
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