Business Quote by 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 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

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

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

— Joe Lonsdale

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

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

— David Bonderman

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

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

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