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

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

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.

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

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.