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Lloyd Blankfein

Lloyd Blankfein

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Lloyd Blankfein -- Born: 1954-09-20. Occupation: banker. Employer: Goldman Sachs. Position: chairperson. Education: Harvard College. Awards: Financial Times Person of the Year.

Born1954-09-20

Occupationbanker, jurist, lawyer

EmployerGoldman Sachs

Positionchairperson, chief executive officer

EducationHarvard College, Harvard Law School, Thomas Jefferson High School

AwardsFinancial Times Person of the Year

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“We had to run things 50 times and be perfect the last 49 times before we could go that way.”
Fortune2026-05-13Source
“You could put on hedges, and those hedges could be worthless tomorrow, if things go another way,”
CNBC2026-03-25Source
“But in America, people do come from the projects and do that and do those things.”
townandcountrymag.com2026-03-04Source
“He's made a contribution if he focuses everybody's attention on the affordability and sustainability of the city.”
hbs.edu2025-09-30Source
“Taking away the Fed's independence and making it another tool of fiscal policy … would diminish its value, just making it more expensive for the U.S. to function in the world,”
hbs.edu2025-09-30Source
“We have to do … a better job of distributing the wealth without putting too much of a burden on what we do to generate the wealth,”
hbs.edu2025-09-30Source
“It is a certainty that this will - that this situation will cause - will act in a way that’s similar to a rate rise in some ways. Banks will have to, you know, because of the tension, because of the pressure and uncertainties, banks will husband their equity,”
reuters.com2023-03-19Source
“At some point there needs to be a forcing function or a reckoning that causes you to come to grips with what your balance sheet really is worth,”
bloomberg.com2026-03-25Source
“So I'd say all the signs are good, and usually when all the signs are this good, I really worry.”
pbs.org2026-03-05Source
“I'm generally bullish, and by the way, it's been good to be bullish on Big Tech,”
Business Insider2026-06-22Source
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“We always had to do things twice,”
Fortune2026-05-13Source
“All I’m saying is that Democrats would have a far stronger case if they conceded what was good.”
Los Angeles Times2020-02-22Source
“It takes years to settle an estate. How is a farmer going to mark-to-market the value of his land.”
CBS News2019-11-19Source

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