It is nine degrees on a Sunday in January, and while most New Yorkers are hunkered down during New York City’s largest snowfall in years, Blackstone’s president and chief operating officer is jogging through several inches of fresh snow in Central Park.
Jonathan Gray sounds a little out of breath as the snow falls around him. “This is a tough environment,” he says in the 42-second video, looking directly into the camera phone carried by a friend trudging alongside him. “It reminds me of the motto: ‘Stay calm, stay positive, never give up.’ It also reminds me of investing. Conditions are not always perfect. There’s noise, but you stay the course—you don’t lose sight of what’s important.”
