Going Public Is Not A Business Plan.

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

To Understand Kkr, I Always Like To Say, Don't Congratulate Us When We Buy A Company. Any Fool Can Buy A Company. Congratulate Us When We Sell It And When We've Done Something With It And Created Real Value.

We've Got A Portfolio Of Companies That Range All The Way From Hotels To Television Stations And Cable Tv Companies, Oil And Gas, Consumer Products, And Industrial Products. If There's Anything That I Want To Know More About, I Have The Opportunity. It's Right In Our Portfolio. I Can Spend Time At The Factory Or With The Manangement And Learn As Much As I Want. You Can't Get Bored Doing That.

If You Have Something At Risk, You Think Differently.

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.