Stephen Pagliuca
Stephen Pagliuca
Stephen Pagliucais an American private equity investor, co-chairman of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth16 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.
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I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.
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The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.
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Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.
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I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.
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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.
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We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.
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I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
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One place I haven't made it to - mainly because it's so far away - is Australia, so I'd love to go there. I've heard great things about Australia and New Zealand.
My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.
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My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
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My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.
basket love owners sit
A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.
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As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.