Lloyd Blankfein's Commencement at LaGuardia Community College

Definitely inspiring and always interesting to hear Lloyd's speeches. Thought some monkeys might want to give it a listen. Please post any other commencement speeches that were motivational and inspiring to some of you.

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I don't have enough points to post the link but these two are great: "Jamie Dimon Adress to HBS MBA Class of 2009" and "Steve Schwarzman Delivers Commencement Address at Quinnipiac".

"When a defining moment comes along you define the moment or the moment defines you."
 

Blankfein and inspiring do not belong in the same sentence...

"And the last thing, how much do you charge for a career consultation and would you accept a check?"
 

I actually highly recommend Conan O'Brien's speech at Dartmouth. I know he's not in finance, but this was given right around after he took over for Jay Leno and then was pushed out. He goes into good detail of what it feels like to put in all the work to get to your dream job, and then have it suddenly pulled out from under you. It's does a great job discussing what mindset you need to have to succeed, and definitely entertaining.

There is a long lead up but if you want to skip to the substance go to around 15:30

 

Like him or not, he did a great job with this speech and shed some light on his hard work that helped him leave the projects. Llloyd was very inspiring in this. In general, he is a fairly good public speaker. I imagine if Dimon gave a commencement speech it would go something along the lines of "That's why I am richer than you."

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Incredible speech. Inspiring for all of us poor guys trying to make it.

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"so i herd u liek mudkipz" - sum kid "I'd watergun the **** outta that." - Kassad
 

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