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Henry Kravis Quotes

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

Henry Kravis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1944

Topics

Time Thinking America First Time

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

John Hickenlooper

Good People Small Think Thinking

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Jeffrey Tambor

Award Everyone Should Else Ensemble

We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.

Andy Taylor

Live Great Back Focused Sound Get

Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.

Amy Morin

Confidence Adversity People Better

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

Anand Giridharadas

Create Realize Difficult Harvard How

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

Funny Hate Woman Head Shoulders Her

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

Robert Winston

Science People Think You Important

I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.

Roseanne Barr

Alone Singing You Know Kind More

We are held up by the radical Muslims as the enemy. So every time we go into one of these countries to do - we think - the right thing, we become propaganda for this radical movement.

Lois Frankel

Time Think Enemy Go Become Movement

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

Lorde

Writing Say Emotion Started Been

Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'

Jay Chandrasekhar

Baseball Comedy You Timing Degree

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

David Souter

Good Simple Good Things Language