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We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Event
Taxable
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Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.
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Manage
Estate
Estate Tax
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Investment in America does not just benefit the United States - it benefits the world.
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Investment
States
Benefit
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Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.
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Gary
Estate
Estate Tax
Guarantee
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We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world.
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Tax System
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I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.
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Rate
Tax Rate
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The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.
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Growth
Views
Way
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If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.
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Upset
Tax Cut
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We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Capital Gains
Gains
Investment
Rate
Capital
Preferred
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We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.
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So Much Money
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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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Management
Matter
Risk
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When our economy grows, it is good for the world. When the world economy grows, it is good for the United States.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Economy
Grows
World Economy
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Our belief in free markets and a level playing field are values that make the world more free, fair, and prosperous.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Level Playing Field
Prosperous
Free Markets
Markets
Playing Field
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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.
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Defined
Dyslexia
Today
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If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages.
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Labor
Tax System
Wages
Compete
Hire
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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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Code
Our World
Difference
Fair
Grow Up
Zip
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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 / Businessman
Groups
Repealing
Tax
Advocate
Biggest
Estate
Estate Tax
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There is a finite group of major financial players... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Finite
Overall
Regarded
Respected
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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 / Businessman
Enormous
Life Experience Me
Educators
Fortunately
Unfortunately
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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.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Tax System
Sheet
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As a patriotic American, I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfil my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Behalf
Commitment
Council
Economic
Patriotic
Reluctant
Work I Am People
American People
Director
Leave
Fulfil
National
Post
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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.
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Educational
Everyone Else
The One Thing
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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 / Businessman
By The Time
Trait
Downside
Highly
Upside
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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.
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Inspiring
Endearing
Classrooms
Topic
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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.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Graduation
Jobs
Believe
Enormous
Fallen
Financial Markets
Passion
Prospects
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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 / Businessman
College
Financial Markets
Noise
Matters
Filter
Introduced
Learned
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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 / Businessman
Trust Me
Chart
Figuring
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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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Asia
China
Growth
Indonesia
Malaysia
Periphery
Philippines
Singapore
Countries
Engine
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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.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Achieve
Flexible
Long
Motivated
Term
Wake Up
Understand
Short
Getting
Every Day
Goals
Got
Intermediate
Personal
Personal Goals
Wake
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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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Jobs
Opportunity
Mistake
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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. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Opportunity
Amazing
Dumb
Location
Multiple
New Job
Ask
Time Opportunity Long
Stand
Time Amazing Long
Allow
Questions
Mistakes
Every Time
Front
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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.
Gary Cohn / Businessman
Mortgage
Significant
Taxes
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