58 Quotes by Henry Kravis

If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

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

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won’t crumble.

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.

Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough.

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

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.

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what’s on their minds, even though that’s probably not what I want to hear. That’s what I want.