Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That’s how you stand out in the crowd. Gary Cohn Read Quote
Going to school is not really education. It’s really who’s in front of the classrooms and who’s endearing themselves to the kids and who’s making the kids want to learn and who’s inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world. Gary Cohn Read Quote
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. Gary Cohn Read Quote
The one thing you realize if you’re going to be successful – no matter where you grew up, no matter what your educational level is – A. You can succeed, but B. The only way you’re going to succeed is by outworking everyone else. Gary Cohn Read Quote
We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple. Gary Cohn Read Quote
We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world. Gary Cohn Read Quote
I’ve thought about it many times, I really have, because it defined who I am. I wouldn’t be where I am today without my dyslexia. Gary Cohn Read Quote
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. Gary Cohn Read Quote
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. Gary Cohn Read Quote
When I look at myself, I have been – really – a lucky American to end up where I am. Gary Cohn Read Quote
