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.

I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

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.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.