GOLDMAN SACHS PRESIDENT: A teacher told my parents, if they were lucky, which can grow to be a trucker

AP

Julia La Roche

A teacher once said Gary Cohn parents when. The possibility that a truck driver could be

"I was a terrible student," Cohn, President and COO of Goldman Sachs, told a room full of teachers.

On Thursday evening, Cohn was honored at the annual dinner Teach For America benefiting New York was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.