Henry Kravis
Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravisis an American businessman. He is the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm with $94.3 billion in assets as of December 31, 2013. He has an estimated net worth of $4.8 billion as of September 2015, ranked by Forbes as the 108th richest man in America and the 278th richest man in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
succeed prove prove-myself
I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
senior winning choices
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 sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.
opportunity oil bored
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.
space effort focus
In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.
married company
But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.
the-end-of-the-day important able
It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
real entrepreneur needs
A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath
one-thing sells
You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.
plans business-plan
Going public is not a business plan.
successful thinking reason
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.
summer new-york wall
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.
brother real men
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.
creativity matter fields
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.
real buying fool
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.