Going Public Is Not A Business Plan.

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.

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, And Industrial Products. If There's Anything That I Want To Know More About, I Have The Opportunity. It's Right In Our Portfolio. I Can Spend Time At The Factory Or With The Manangement And Learn As Much As I Want. You Can't Get Bored Doing That.

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 When We've Done Something With It And Created Real Value.

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.

But Once You Buy A Company, You Are Married. You Are Married To That Company.