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Stephen A. Schwarzman

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One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Preparing youth for employment requires training that is demand-driven to meet the needs of companies and ensure that young people are taught marketable skills. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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As the world has become more predatory and aggressive, my impression is that the investment banking business has moved from being relationship-oriented to being increasingly transaction-oriented. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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The concept of fair value accounting is correct and useful, but the application during periods of crisis is problematic. It's another one of those unintended consequences of making a rule that's supposed to be good that turns out the other way. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I've learned that all investments have risk. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Every year, I speak to our new associates and give them this advice, although in my own words. 'This isn't like school,' I tell them, 'where you want to get your hand in the air and give an answer quickly. The only grade here is 100. Deadlines are important, but at Blackstone you can always get help in meeting them.' - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I grew up in a small town outside Philadelphia and went to the local high school, where I ran track all four years. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Don't go into something you actually don't know much about, in the hopes that you're going to get really financially successful and rewarded... even though people think you're, like, terrific. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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As long as you're excellent, things work out for you. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I like being in warm weather. I find that relaxes me. I like being near water. I like sitting on a beach and sort of hearing the water, watching waves break, looking at the shimmering. I find that really relaxing. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person; they just don't know it's happening yet. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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We have limited time, and we have to maximize it. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Live life intensely - I've always believed in that. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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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. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they'll be here forever. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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There are no patents in finance. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
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