105 Quotes by Stephen A. Schwarzman

Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

China is an indomitable force, and they have a commitment for excellence.

Deals really have to do with the overlap of what one side wants and the other side wants, and it's really just the discovery of where that overlap is and how you decide to get there.

Blackstone is a major client of many of the largest banks around the world.