Quotes from Gary Cohn

I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I had a lot of experience with different educators.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

The one trait in a lot of dyslexic people I know is that by the time we got out of college, our ability to deal with failure was very highly developed. And so we look at most situations and see much more of the upside than the downside.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.