Gary Cohn

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. ”

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career. ”

Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. ”

We want to go back to a tax system where Americans sit down at their kitchen table, and they do their taxes on a single sheet of paper. That's what we should have in this America. ”

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons. ”

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. ”

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. ”

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple. ”

We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment. ”

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets. ”