Key facts
- Stephen Schwarzman learned leadership principles as Abington Senior High School student body president.
- He learned to "do what no one else is doing" and to "do something big."
- Blackstone has over $1 trillion in assets under management.
- Schwarzman founded Blackstone with Peter Peterson in 1985.
Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager with over $1 trillion in assets under management, has reflected on early leadership lessons learned during his time as student body president at Abington Senior High School. He stated that during his tenure, he learned two guiding principles: to "do what no one else is doing" and that "if you are going to commit yourself, it is just as easy to do something big as to do something small."