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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. "
Commitment
Work
People
" 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. "
Growth
Singapore
Growing
" Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. "
Freedom
Equality
Never
" 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. "
World
You
Important
" 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. "
People
Job
Time
" Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you. "
Guarantee
You
Tax
" 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. "
Education
Curious
World
" 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. "
Know
Goal
End
" 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. "
Think
Out
College
" I don't drink hot beverages. "
Drink
Hot
" I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons. "
Public
Negative
Light
" If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset. "
Someone
Tax
Upset
" 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. "
Tax
You
Will
" 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. "
Experience
Me
Life
" Investment in America does not just benefit the United States - it benefits the world. "
America
World
United
" 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. "
Without
I Am
Today
" I was a horrible student. "
Horrible
Student
" I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here. "
Create
Like
Here
" 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. "
Wake Up
Day
Goals
" Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax. "
Know
Smart
Enough
" 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. "
Who
You
Tax
" Our belief in free markets and a level playing field are values that make the world more free, fair, and prosperous. "
Belief
Free
Fair
" 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. "
Successful
Way
Realize
" 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. "
Know
Time
People
" 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. "
Group
Us
Thought
" 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. "
Passion
Believe
Financial
" We do not believe that death should be a taxable event. "
Event
Should
Taxable
" We need to get a business tax system that makes us competitive to the rest of the world. "
Tax
World
System
" We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple. "
Taxes
Doing
Hours
" 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. "
Kitchen
America
Back
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