Ron Williams Quotes

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

Having spent almost 25 years in different roles within Investor, I have truly enjoyed working with creating long-term value in our companies.

We have a very competitive and profitable investment bank and strong asset management capabilities. We want to continue to build on all those businesses organically.

I founded SkyBridge - an alternative investment management company focused on seeding and partnering with emerging managers and mentoring Wall Street's next generation of Wall Street's entrepreneurs - in 2005.

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.