Gary Cohn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Risk #Matter #Management
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. Thats how you stand out in the crowd.
-- Gary Cohn

#Jobs #Mistake #Opportunity
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.
-- Gary Cohn

#Jobs #Believe #Passion
The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.
-- Gary Cohn

#Views #Growth #Way
We no longer have a significant middle class in the US due to Barack Obama's job-killing ban on oil drilling in Zion Park. While a small middle class remains in the coastal blue states, our tax bill devastates them by curbing deductions for state and local taxes and large mortgages. In a few years, everyone except the 1% will be a tricklee.
-- Gary Cohn

#Mortgage #Significant #Taxes

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
When all else fails, complicate matters
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.

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