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.
Investment in America does not just benefit the United States - it benefits the world.
When our economy grows, it is good for the world. When the world economy grows, it is good for the United States.
Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.
Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.
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.
When I look at myself, I have been - really - a lucky American to end up where I am.
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.
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.
We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world.
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.
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.
