#on

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 out and face failure. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#face #failing #failure #go #going

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. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#build #building #business #crumble #ethical

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

— Henry Kravis

#company #married #once #you

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 side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#brother #creating #george #him #i

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. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#amount #bonds #days #enormous #go

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. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#california #car #college #drive #economics

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#because #buy #company #congratulate #fool

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#challenge #chance #could #else #enormous

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#better mother #better person #desire #i #make

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

— Henry Kravis

#corporate #corporate america #everything #in my opinion #opinion