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I thought at the time that I ...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

As I said there is nothing wr...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

If you build that foundation,...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

If we can just take a few com...

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

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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Any fool can buy a company; ju...

Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

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And make sure that capital str...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

Our industry expertise (at KKR...

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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To understand KKR, I always li...

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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In the large buy out space, wh...

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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A real entrepreneurs who do no...

A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

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I was an economics major in co...

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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But once you buy a company, yo...

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

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If you have something at risk,...

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

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Whales who come up and spout o...

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

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Going public is not a business...

Going public is not a business plan.

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If you don't have integrity, y...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

As I said there is nothing wro...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

I want people who will stand u...

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.

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

The trouble, in my opinion, wi...

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

Henry Kravis 45 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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