Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon's 2026 Wharton MBA Graduation Speech

章节 1：所罗门谈追求卓越与第一条核心价值：成长

📝 本节摘要：

高盛CEO大卫·所罗门在沃顿2026届MBA毕业典礼上致辞。他先以幽默开场，祝贺毕业生，称赞沃顿人追求卓越。他对比上世纪80年代手工整理股价数据的经历与如今技术的便利，认为今天是最好的时代，但机遇需要自己把握。他提出贯穿42年职业生涯的核心价值，其中第一条是成长。他讲述在贝尔斯登遭遇交易失败后，导师让他冷静下来重新沟通的往事，强调要接纳批评、勇于改变、信任导师。

[原文] [David Solomon]: Thank you all very much. This is a better crowd than Lollapalooza. I used to tell my friends that someday I'd be on the court at the Cathedral of College Basketball. I never expected it would be as a 64-year-old bank executive. But here we are. Dean James, thank you for asking me to be here today, it is a great honor, and I want to start by saying, "Congratulations to the Wharton MBA Class of 2026!" I've had the great pleasure of working with hundreds of Wharton alums at Goldman Sachs.

[译文] [David Solomon]: 非常感谢大家。今天的观众比 Lollapalooza 音乐节的还要热烈。我以前常跟朋友说，总有一天我会站上“大学篮球圣殿”的球场。没想到真站上来时，我已经是个 64 岁的银行高管了。不过，我还是来了。詹姆斯院长，感谢您邀请我今天来到这里，这是莫大的荣幸。首先我想说：“祝贺沃顿商学院 2026 届 MBA 毕业生！”我有幸在高盛（Goldman Sachs）与数百位沃顿校友共事。

[原文] [David Solomon]: When I ask them what makes this place special, I often hear about the rigor of the classroom, the devotion of the faculty, or the global reach of the alumni network. One alum said, "It's like the best dinner party you've ever been to, it lasts two years." But one theme is constant: this is a group of people that strives for excellence. This is a value I hold deeply, striving for excellence. Though admittedly, it looked very different when I was your age. Let me paint a picture. Today, if you want to compare a stock price's performance to its peers, you say ten words into your phone and it spits out the result faster than you can get a drink at Bonner's.

[译文] [David Solomon]: 我问他们这里有什么特别之处，常听到的回答是课堂的严谨、老师的投入，或是遍布全球的校友网络。有位校友说：“这就像你参加过的最棒的一场晚宴，而且一开就是两年。”但有一点始终不变：这是一群追求卓越的人。追求卓越，也是我深深秉持的一种价值观。不过说实话，在我你们这个年纪时，它看起来可完全是另一番模样。我来给大家描绘一下。今天，如果你想比较一只股票和同行的表现，只要对着手机说十来个字，结果就出来了，比你在 Bonner's 酒吧点到一杯酒还快。

[原文] [David Solomon]: But when I was starting out, back in the pre-historic days of the 1980s, I had to go to the library, pull old issues of the Wall Street Journal, write down the historical stock prices, while brushing back my long flowing hair, plot them on a piece of graph paper, and then take a picture of it on a Xerox machine. The whole process took about six hours. Then I would go to my client and I would say, "Here's how your stock traded versus these five competitors over the last five years."

[译文] [David Solomon]: 可在我刚入行的时候，也就是上世纪 80 年代那个“史前时代”，我得去图书馆，翻出旧的《华尔街日报》，把历史股价一个个抄下来——一边还得拨弄一下我那飘逸的长发——再把它们画在坐标纸上，然后用施乐复印机复印一份。整个过程大概要花六个小时。然后我去找客户，跟他说：“这是过去五年里，贵公司股票相对这五家竞争对手的走势。”

[原文] [David Solomon]: They would look at me and say, "Thank you so much, I've never seen such brilliance." The world is very different now. But the way I see it: today is the best day in the history of the world to be in your shoes. And tomorrow will be even better. That doesn't mean perfect, but as the world evolves, technology empowers people in ways generations before us couldn't dream of. It is exciting. The opportunity in front of you is enormous. But I'm here today to remind you that it is up to each and every one of you to capture it.

[译文] [David Solomon]: 客户会看着我说：“太感谢了，我从没见过这么精彩的东西。”如今世界已经大不一样了。但在我看来：今天是人类历史上处在你们这个位置的最好的一天，而明天还会更好。这并不意味着一切完美，但随着世界不断演进，技术赋予人们的能力，是前几代人做梦都想不到的。这令人振奋。摆在你们面前的机遇是巨大的。但我今天来，是想提醒大家：能否抓住它，取决于你们每一个人自己。

[原文] [David Solomon]: Over my 42-year career, I've found there are certain core values that transcend shifts in technology and culture. And if you work at them, they'll not only help you strive for excellence and capture opportunity, they'll give you a better chance of looking back when you're older, like me, and being satisfied with how you've spent your time. The first one, I had to learn the hard way. I was in my 30s, working at Bear Stearns, and I had a deal go south, and what felt like, a spectacular failure.

[译文] [David Solomon]: 在 42 年的职业生涯中，我发现有些核心价值观能够超越技术和文化的变迁。如果你们用心践行，它们不仅能帮助你们追求卓越、把握机遇，还能让你们在像我这样上了年纪、回首往事时，更有可能对自己度过的时光感到满意。第一条，我是吃了苦头才学会的。那时我三十多岁，在贝尔斯登（Bear Stearns）工作，有一笔交易搞砸了，感觉简直是一场惨败。

[原文] [David Solomon]: I went storming into the office of my mentor, Richie Metrick, and I was extremely emotional. He looked at me, all bent out of shape, my arms were waving, and he said, "Would you like to have a conversation about this?" I shouted back at him, "Yes." He said, "Then why don't you go back out there, calm down, and try that again?" So I literally walked back out of his office, took a deep breath, and walked back in with a much more balanced and constructive approach. We talked for an hour.

[译文] [David Solomon]: 我气冲冲地闯进我的导师里奇·梅特里克（Richie Metrick）的办公室，情绪非常激动。他看着我——我整个人火冒三丈，手臂挥个不停——然后说：“你想就这件事好好谈谈吗？”我冲他吼道：“想！”他说：“那你为什么不先出去，冷静一下，再重新来一次？”于是我真的走出了他的办公室，深吸一口气，再走进去，换了一种冷静得多、也更有建设性的方式。我们谈了一个小时。

[原文] [David Solomon]: Which brings me to the first value: growth. Embrace criticism. Be open to change. It is a wonderful life skill to examine our faults and then adapt. One of the things that has helped me enormously is finding mentors I trust, and then trusting them when they tell me I can do better. I learned a lot about this from my dad, who was a leading expert in what I could do better. When I was in high school, I once complained to him that I didn't have enough money to do the things I wanted to do.

[译文] [David Solomon]: 这就引出了第一条价值观：成长。拥抱批评，乐于改变。审视自身的不足并随之调整，是一项了不起的人生技能。对我帮助极大的一件事，就是找到我信任的导师，并在他们告诉我“你还可以做得更好”时，选择相信他们。在这方面，我从我父亲身上学到了很多——他可是指出我哪里还能做得更好的头号专家。上高中时，我有一次向他抱怨，说我没有足够的钱去做我想做的事。