I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself..

Going public is not a business plan..

But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company..

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the….

A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be….

In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experienc….

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

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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

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 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….

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..