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.

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

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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.

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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.

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The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic gr... by Gary Cohn

The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

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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.

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I can stop this. I'll just take the paper off Bob Woodward desk. by Gary Cohn

I can stop this. I'll just take the paper off Bob Woodward desk.

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I stole it off his desk, i wouldn't let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.

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I stole it off President Trump desk, i wouldn't let President Trump see it. President Trump's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.

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When we grow, the world grows; when the world grows, we grow. We’re part of it, and we’re part of a world economy.And the president believes that.

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As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘ Jews will no replace us ’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.

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You know, Macron and the president have somewhat different views on how to achieve the end goal, but I think the end goal is the same.

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I think we do, this is going be a great week. We're going to get health care down to the floor of the House. We're convinced we've got the votes and we're going to keep moving on with our agenda.

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Clearly, we have a unique opportunity to do something major here, it’s our intention to create a huge tax cut, and equally as important, a huge simplification of the tax system in America.

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This isn't going to be easy. Doing big things never is, we will be attacked from the left and we'll be attacked from the right, but one thing is certain: I would never, ever bet against this President. He will get this done for the American people.

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We are in currency wars, the prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

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Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.

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Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you.... by Gary Cohn

Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.

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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.

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Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world.

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