Private Equity Firms Quotes

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media's caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

Trade sales are the bulk of exits, and there's no shame in that. Sometimes, it's exactly the right thing to do.

As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.

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

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward.

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.

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.