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"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck."
"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."
"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."
"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."
"You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly."
"If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land."
Explore more quotes by Henry Kravis
"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."
"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."
"It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment."
"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters."
"I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."
"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."
"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."
"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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