Career path Quote by Ron Williams

For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly…

— David Bonderman

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

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

— Christie Hefner

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

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

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time…

— Henry Kravis

To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for…

— Adena Friedman

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

— Martha Stewart

I wouldn't be a CEO today if I didn't do different things to build capabilities and build experiences because to come a leader, you…

— Cathy Engelbert

Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important.…

— David Bonderman

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