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Henry Kravis

"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."

Source : "Avatar of American Finance". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 12, 1991.

Henry Kravis

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“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
“In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it.”
“I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they donâ€™t listen. They just run their own race. Thatâ€™s what you have to do. Donâ€™t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.”

Source : "Running My Own Race" by Julie Carlson Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.
“American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.”

Source : Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1953). “Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)”
“I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.”
“Fortunately, taking a picture leaves no mark.”
“I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.”

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