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Going public is not a business plan.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Business Plan
Plans
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Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Enough
Fool
Pay
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Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Come Up
Whales
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If you have something at risk, you think differently.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Ifs
Risk
Thinking
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You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
One Thing
Sells
Sell
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A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Entrepreneur
Needs
Real
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If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.
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Ethical
Ifs
Integrity
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A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Inspirational
Inspiring
Success
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But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.
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Company
Married
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Prove
Prove Myself
Succeed
Life Myself My Life
All My Life
Hurry
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Important
Important Things
Investing
Investment
The End Of The Day
End Of The Day
End Of The Day Day Important
The Most Important
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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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America
Corporate
Corporate America
Opinion
Quarters
Today
Trouble
In My Opinion
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I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
America
Assets
Corporate
Corporate America
Managers
Owners
Refer
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Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.
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Transparent
Frankly
Quite Frankly
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Giving Back
Right Thing
The Right Thing
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And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Reason
Successful
Thinking
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Appropriate
Creativity
Fields
Matter
Structure
Capital
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As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Failure
Faces
Failing
Said
Trying
Yourself
Nothing
Again
Face
Try
Wrong
Pick
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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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Money
Company
Fool
Long
Any
Buy
Congratulate
Sell
Last
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If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
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Ethical
Foundation
Integrity
Moral
Build
Crumble
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I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Mind
People
Want
Me People Will
Afraid
Me People Stand
Exactly
Minds
Stand Up
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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 / Businessman
Money
Ethical
Integrity
Moral
World
Person
Really
Nothing
Buy
You
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Buying
Incentives
Management
Perform
Importantly
Incentive
Picked
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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 / Businessman
Corporate
Corporate America
Equity
First Time
Managers
Owners
Accountable
Companies
Holding
Private
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I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Incentives
Long
Management
Managers
Views
Love Work Good
Good Managers
Partner
Provide
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
New York
California
College
Summer
Wall
Drive
Street
Major
Wall Street
York
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It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sale?' and if they said 'No, we have no interest in selling,' that was sort of the end of the conversation.
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Ceo
Conversation
Selling
No Interest
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If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Corporate
Corporate America
Models
Companies
Competitive
Examples
Rest
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To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.
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Buying
Done
Real
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So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.
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Enormous
Exposure
Challenge
Everyone Else
Just Be
Picked
Pioneer
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I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Men
Brother
Creating
Pleasure
Real
Wonderful
Man World Me
Side
George
Partner
Real Pleasure
Roberts
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Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.
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Choices
Senior
Winning
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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.
Henry Kravis / Businessman
Amount
Enormous
Selling
Ties
Years
Time Money Go
Bonds
Institutional
Sales
Stocks
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In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.
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Space
Effort
Focus
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We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that.
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Opportunity
Bored
Oil
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