Quotes from William D. Cohan

In the past, when Michel had been asked about how the firm would manage without the prolific Felix, he would quote Georges Clemenceau, the French World War I leader: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.

déjà vu all over again.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

Despite the ongoing risks, during great swaths of its mostly charmed 142 years, Goldman Sachs has been both envied and feared for having the best talent, the best clients, and the best political connections, and for its ability to alchemize them into extreme profitability and market prowess.

Please remember that our time on this Earth is not guaranteed. Please tell those you love that you do. Right now. This very minute. —SOPHIA BUSH

A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March." —Brutus to Julius Caesar, Act I, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, circa 1600

Where Is It Written That To Be Successful In Business You Have To Be Smart?")

He adored his girls, but he's French, so he's, you know, women are there to be dressed and fed and fucked.

Second, he is credited with almost single-handedly devising the financial rescue package that saved New York City from bankruptcy in 1975, standing tall against President Gerald Ford and his incendiary refusal to help.

You know that I am a great believer that the faults of people are very often more determining than their qualities.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale." John Kenneth Galbraith quoted in Money and Power

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Emerson