Henry Kravis Quotes

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• 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…
• 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,…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
• If you have something at risk, you think differently.
• But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.
• 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…
• 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.
• I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
• You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
• 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…
• I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
• 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…

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