When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity..

Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who really understood value, how to….

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street..

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business..

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to s….

Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business - actually, the word didn'….

Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where eithe….

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home..

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her..

Being a good private equity investor is more complicated than it seems. I would say that there are a few characteristics that are important. If you l….

The private equity world is a relatively small one. There are currently probably a few thousand professional jobs worldwide. In private equity, that'….

For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly about different businesses. So it….

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday..