Everyday Quote by David Bonderman

“Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.”

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Everyday Excited

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Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business - actually, the word didn't even exist - when I started. I got there out of the purest of happenstance and so I think many people find what they really enjoy doing just in that way. So another piece…

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

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A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

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Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

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The private equity world is a relatively small one. There are currently probably a few thousand professional jobs worldwide. In private equity, that's probably…

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Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

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When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

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For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly…

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Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where…

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Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important.…

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I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and…

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Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

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