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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."
"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
Explore more quotes by Henry Kravis
"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."
"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."
"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters."
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