Country Quote by Joe Lonsdale

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

— Sam Altman

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

— Bill Ackman

To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly.…

— Whitney Tilson

All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected…

— Charlie Munger

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

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

— Wilbur Ross

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

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