Henry Silverman
Henry Silverman
Henry R. Silverman is an American entrepreneur and private equity investor. Silverman is best known for his role in building Cendant Corporation into a multibillion dollar business services company that provided car rentals, travel reservation services as well as real estate brokerage services and was also the largest franchisor of hotels globally...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
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When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.
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I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. One is competition has gotten a lot worse, and more global.
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Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It's what you do afterward that matters.
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We are very focused on growing our business internally but also externally. We like this business very much. We have a comparative advantage -- we can use our comparative database in order to qualify leads.
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I've always dreamed of franchising an airline, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.