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Henry Kravis

"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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"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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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

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"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."

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"Today's failure can teach us to prepare for the future."

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"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."

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"For one to succeed, one must be a assured of failure."

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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."

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"If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places."

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"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

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"Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options."

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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."
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"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company."
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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."
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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."
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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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"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."
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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."
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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."
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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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"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."
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