Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
“Unless we’re interacting with a mirror all day, we are interacting across differences.” — Sara Taylor Copy Share Image
All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Our challenge is how to identify and talk about our differences, well, differently.” — Sara Taylor Copy Share Image
April was my first major role and provided me with my Equity card. — Conchata Ferrell Copy Share Image
The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with… The existence of banks with single digit… — Anat R. Admati Copy Share Image
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed,… — Tanner Colby Copy Share Image
Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah,… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
“The majority of any society comprised, Smith knew, not landlords or merchants, but "servants, laborers, and workmen of different kinds," who derived… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
“Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
