If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it..

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful..

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners..

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, ….

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them..

If you have something at risk, you think differently..

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment..

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….

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go ou….

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself..

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned..

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, an….

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the ….

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters..

Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical pers….

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….

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to….

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, t….

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 s….

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 ….