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Whales Who Come Up And Spout Off Get Harpooned.

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.

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

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.

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.