Stephen A Schwarzman Quotes

#1. Neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Francis Bacon

#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. By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

James Larkin

#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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

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#9. Dan, rabbits who've been fed oysters laced with Viagra don't like sex as much as you do.

Matt Dunn

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

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

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

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#13. I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

Tayari Jones

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

Bruce Lee

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

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

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#19. I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Lou Gehrig

#20. I have a choice: Do I want to align with the GREATEST VISION OF MYSELF or Do I want to align with my EXCUSES?

Debbie Ford

#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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