Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy…

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But…

— Nile Rodgers

There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really…

— Conor Oberst

With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have.

— Graham Hawkes

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses…

— Matt Taibbi

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families…

— Kenneth Rogoff

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency…

— Jack Reed

Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together.…

— Steve Rubel

Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who really understood…

— David Bonderman

Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business - actually, the…

— David Bonderman

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80…

— Bob Diamond

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

— Ehud Barak

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying…

— Clayton Christensen

I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up…

— Charlie Munger

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some.

— Paul Krugman

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman