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Top 20 Henry Kravis Quotes (2024 Update)

Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it.”

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

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.”

4. “Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.”

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

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Henry Kravis Quote: “Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough.”

7. “Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “You only have one thing to sell in life, and that’s yourself.”

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

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “I’ve been in a hurry all my life. I’ve been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.”

12. “I’ve been in a hurry all my life. I’ve been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “Going public is not a business plan.”

13. “Going public is not a business plan.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.”

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

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Henry Kravis Quote: “The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.”

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

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Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “It’s not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we’ve given them the right incentive to perform.”

17. “It’s not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we’ve given them the right incentive to perform.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.”

19. “I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.”

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Henry Kravis Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.”

21. “One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “If you have something at risk, you think differently.”

22. “If you have something at risk, you think differently.”

— Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis Quote: “I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.”

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

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Henry Kravis Quote: “It’s one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.”

24. “It’s one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.”

— Henry Kravis

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