Accountable Quote by Henry Kravis

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

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

— N. Robert Hammer

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

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

— Michael Lee-Chin

When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn't. And what I've learned since my retirement, and since becoming directly…

— Ron Williams

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

As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature: rapacious privateers…

— Ron Williams

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

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

Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of…

— N. Robert Hammer

Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology…

— Joe Lonsdale

Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to…

— Charles A. Reich