Counterparts Quote by Gerry Schwartz

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

— David Rubenstein

It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That…

— David Rubenstein

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

— N. Robert Hammer

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

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity…

— Stephen Pagliuca

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

— Michael Lee-Chin

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

— Thomas G. Stemberg

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

— Bill Ackman

I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row…

— N. Robert Hammer

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private…

— Stephen Pagliuca

The world of private equity is only likely to get a lot bigger.

— Lina Khan