58 Quotes by Lloyd Blankfein

It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.

I am one with the popular culture.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

Growth requires risk-taking. If you want to dampen risk and make sure you never have a problem, you do so, but that also will have an effect on growth. This is a decision that doesn't necessarily belong to financial institutions. It belongs to regulators and legislators who represent the body politic.

In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.

There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

If you can't legislate, you can't deal with problems.

Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda.