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Henry Kravis

So I picked a field where I h...

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

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Henry Kravis

In the '70s and '80s, what pr...

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.

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Henry Kravis

To understand KKR, I always l...

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.

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Henry Kravis

In the large buy out space, w...

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.

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Henry Kravis

We've got a portfolio of comp...

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.

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Henry Kravis

A real entrepreneur is somebo...

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

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Henry Kravis

Our industry expertise (at KK...

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.

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Henry Kravis

If you don't have integrity, ...

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.

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Henry Kravis

It's not just buying the comp...

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.

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Henry Kravis

One, I love the creativity. I...

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.

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Henry Kravis

Going public is not a busines...

Going public is not a business plan.

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Henry Kravis

I love the ability to work wi...

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.

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Henry Kravis

I have, in my partner George ...

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.

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Henry Kravis

I always like to refer manage...

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

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Henry Kravis

I want people who will stand ...

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.

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Henry Kravis

Giving back is something that...

Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It's not that I do it because it's the right thing: I do it because I want do it.

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Henry Kravis

It's one of the most importan...

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

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Henry Kravis

I was an economics major in c...

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.

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Henry Kravis

Look, don't congratulate us w...

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

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Henry Kravis

I've been in a hurry all my l...

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

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