One, I Love The Creativity. I Love

A Real Entrepreneur Is Somebody Who Has No Safety Net Underneath Them.

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.

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.

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.

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.