Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier. — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn't. And what I've learned since my retirement, and since… — Ron Williams Copy Share Image
In nursing homes, we saw an increase in the mortality rate after private equity buys them. There are just very real life… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private… — Mohammad Hamid Ansari Copy Share Image
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think… — Jamie Dimon 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
Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
“the standard private equity playbook: jawbone the unions, cut costs even at the price of damaging longer-term success, do a sale-leaseback of… — Brian Alexander Copy Share Image
A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We live in a global market and money's fungible and hedge fund private equity is looking for momentum plays, and there ain't… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
If you have money draining out of the public equity markets, that inevitably affects the private equity market. They cannot exist going… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
Championing quality improvement and value in the health care system is a passion of mine, and I'm able to bring about change… — Ron Williams Copy Share Image
Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major… — N. Robert Hammer Copy Share Image
I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same.… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75… — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more… — David Rubenstein Copy Share Image
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a… — N. Robert Hammer Copy Share Image
The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The… — Bob Rice Copy Share Image
As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
Serial acquisition strategies are not just limited to private equity firms. They have also been used by large technology companies and others… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
From his lifetime of experience as a turnaround expert in private equity to his experience with the turnaround mission of the Olympics… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature:… — Ron Williams Copy Share Image
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
