List of Henry Kravis Quotes

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.

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.

Going Public Is Not A Business Plan.

I Always Like To Refer Managers In Corporate America As The Renters Of The Corporate Assets, Not The Owners.

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.

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.

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.

The Trouble, In My Opinion, With Corporate America Today, Is That Everything Is Thought Of In Quarters.

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.

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.

A Real Entrepreneurs Who Do Not Need Protection Nets Underneath

But Once You Buy A Company, You Are Married. You Are Married To That Company.