American - Businessman | January 6, 1944 -
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
Henry Kravis
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Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It's not that I do it because it's the right thing: I do it because I want do it.
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Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
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If you have something at risk, you think differently.
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I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
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One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.
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It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.
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The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
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You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.
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I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
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I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.
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It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
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