Amount Quote by N. Robert Hammer

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

— N. Robert Hammer

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 investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.

— Joe Lonsdale

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

Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now private equity…

— Kevin Kinsella

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

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

— Jane Alexander

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

— Bill Ackman

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process…

— Paul Hawken

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

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