Schwarzman Quotes

#1. The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#2. I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#3. My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#4. Decisions exist only in the present.

Peter Drucker

#5. This country, of course, needs fundamental reform of our financial regulatory system, as I, and many other financial institution executives, have publicly advocated for a considerable period.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#6. I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#7. I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#8. It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#9. I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#10. If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#11. Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#12. My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#13. I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I'm not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#14. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?

Sarah Dessen

#15. My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#16. The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.

Ayn Rand

#17. A toast at your wedding, perhaps?" said Eldric.
"I shall never get married," I said. "But I do like champagne.

Franny Billingsley

#18. A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Aman Jassal

#19. I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#20. For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#21. I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#22. Ah ... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Kate Winslet

#23. For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

Jarvis Cocker

#24. A healthy Christian life cannot be stitched together from a series of disjointed mountain-top experiences. We need a Christian spirituality that endures the shadowy, low-lying valleys and the rocky slopes in between all those glorious summits.

Andrew Byers

#25. But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

David Bowie