David Cohen Quotes

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

Business can never be carried on without optimism, and the New World is essentially optimistic. But at the same time optimism does not absolve us from weighing carefully all possible difficulties.

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

I think entrepreneurs should demand transparency for startup accelerators.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

Donald Trump must give the American public his tax returns to show that he's qualified to be president and he's breaking his promise.

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.