Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

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Stephen A. Schwarzman

Profession : Businessman

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

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

The biggest mistake I've seen people make with their careers is, when they're good, after two or three years - and they happen to be smart - they announce that they're going out to start their own firm.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Live life intensely - I've always believed in that.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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

Stephen A. Schwarzman

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I love houses. I'm not sure why.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Sometimes, success in life is knowing one's limitations.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

We have limited time, and we have to maximize it.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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

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

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.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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

There are no patents in finance.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

The best investments are the easiest ones to approve.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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