"A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business."

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Source : "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". SuperReturn conference in Berlin, www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.

David Bonderman

#Would Be Quotes #Portugal Quotes #Default Quotes

“One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achievedÂ… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggleÂ… Without struggle there is no life.”
“You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?”
“I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.”
“I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.”
“It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.”
“Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.”
“Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.”
“What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.”

Source : Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Liquid Modernity”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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