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  • If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

  • I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.

  • I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

  • If you have something at risk, you think differently.

  • As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

  • It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

  • I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

  • We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.

    Opportunity   Oil   Bored  
    "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.
  • Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.

  • But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

  • I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

  • If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

    "Veterans Showcase Integrity as a Core Strength, First and Foremost!" by Dwayne Paro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2016.
  • In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.

  • It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

  • I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

    "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.
  • One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

  • I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

  • Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

  • The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

  • Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

  • I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

  • To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.

  • You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

  • And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

  • A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

  • If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

  • Going public is not a business plan.

  • A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

    "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.
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