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My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Intense
Life Is
Life Love Work
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I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Brunch
Fuel
Persons
Regard
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For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Compelling
Opera
Great Me More
Few Things
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I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?
David Rubenstein / Executive
Cemetery
Rich
Want
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I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
David Rubenstein / Executive
Cemetery
Realised
Asked
Richest
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Do not always say no. If satisfied with the seat in place and not reckless, the next 20 years you will still sit there alone
David Rubenstein / Executive
Next
Reckless
Years
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I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Blessed
Regard
Saturday
Sleep
Sunday
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
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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 / Executive
Efficient
Equity
People
Thinking
Used
People More Think
Basically
Companies
Scheme
Private
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I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Age
Nonprofits
Old Age
Ripe
Wanted
Reached
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Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Decision
Mistake
Thinking
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The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Art
Complicated
Division
People
Performing
Performing Arts
Theatre
Nothing
World People Way
Lot
Does
Arts
World People Nothing
Between
Else
Place
Tend
Unify
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Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Money
Risk
Years
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When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Carter
Comprehensive
House
President
Tax Reform
White
White House
Tax
Presidents
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I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Giving Money
Trying
Views
Politicians
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I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Giving Money
Ideas
People
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I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Fair Share
Law
People
Taxes
Thinking
Unfair
Change Law People
Paying
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Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Administration
Community
Decision
Rhetoric
Thinking
Accessible
Business Community
Reached
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What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Community
People
Wish
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What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'
David Rubenstein / Executive
Deathbed
Time Family Money
Family Time Money
People Say
They Say
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As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Baby
Country
Retirement
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As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Boomers
Enjoyable
Ready
Retirement
Life Me Live
Life Me Will
Life Me Country
Baby Boomers
Retire
Generation
Spend
Takes
Themselves
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Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Determined
Giving
Guilty
Making Money
Money I Am Me
Bulk
Money Me I Am
Moneymaking
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I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.
David Rubenstein / Executive
College
Columbia
Letters
Scholarship
Students
Best Money Me
Afforded
District
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I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Boards
Causes
Organization
Philanthropy
Target
Two
Gifts
Nonprofit
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Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Educational
Growing Up
Thinking
Money Me People
Anybody
Useful
Difference
Gives
Help People
Helped
Make A Difference
Mostly
Scholarships
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Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.
David Rubenstein / Executive
India
Size
Any Other Place
Mantle
Match
Pass
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I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Country
Gates
Giving
Income
Pledge
Strong
Bill
Bill Gates
Bulk
Intend
Signed
Warren
Warren Buffett
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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 success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Benefits
Efficient
Equity
Helping
Investors
Mean
Pension
Profitable
Wealth
Benefit
Funds
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You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Money
Choices
Giving
Thinking
Three
Really
Lot
Money Your More
Away
Buy
Invest
How
Getting
Give
Spend
Something
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My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Activity
America
Circumstances
Employee
Father
Modest
Office
Post Office
Thinking
Rise
Good Father People
Economically
Good Thing
Post
Worked
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All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.
David Rubenstein / Executive
Accountants
Blame
Filling
Giving
Law
Rate
Writing
Tax
Change Money Me
Paying
Returns
So Much Money
Tax Rate
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