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
american-businessman begins buy company job start
Our job really begins the day we buy the company, and we start working with the management, we start working with where this company is headed.
american-businessman corporate department last next research sales summer worked
My next summer I worked in the research department of Goldman Sachs, and my last summer I was in institutional sales and corporate finance.
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.
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.
america owners assets
I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
integrity ethical ifs
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.
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.
one-thing sells
You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.
america today opinion
The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
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.
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.
years ties selling
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.
people mind want
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 hear. That's what I want.
plans business-plan
Going public is not a business plan.