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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."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."

"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've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself."

"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."
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"Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize."

"Celebrate your failures as much as your successes; both are lessons."

"The fear of failure is a liability."

"Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way."
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