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.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

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.

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.

But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.