Henry Kravis Quotes

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

What is the one-sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.

I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I always aspired to do something different.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.