Top 19 Gary Cohn Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Gary Cohn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage them

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.
Gary Cohn
We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains – we think it is important to encourage investment.
Gary Cohn
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
When I look at myself, I have been – really – a lucky American to end up where I am.
Gary Cohn
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.
Gary Cohn
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
On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really is the pass-through business, and it’s the farmers.
Gary Cohn
I don’t think it’s good for anyone to be in the public light – for negative reasons.
Gary Cohn
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
Investment in America does not just benefit the United States – it benefits the world.
Gary Cohn
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.
Gary Cohn
We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.
Gary Cohn
I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.
Gary Cohn
I was a horrible student.
Gary Cohn
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
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
We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world.
Gary Cohn
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.
Gary Cohn
Gary Cohn doesn’t care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.
Gary Cohn