Gary Cohn Quotes

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

Macro-trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

Fundamentals make the market.

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.

I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

There are two ways to approach the market. You can guess which direction prices will go in next, or you can figure out what businesses and their securities are really worth.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.