A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business. — David Bonderman
You must own equity to gain your financial freedom. — Naval Ravikant
Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
In India, one has to have faith in equity. What are the alternatives – real estate, debt? If debt can give you 6 percent, equity can give you 15 percent. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Return alone, quality of investment decisions — Howard Marks
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. — Benjamin Graham
We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created. — Bill Ackman
Value and growth, value today, value tomorrow, growth investing, value investing, analysis, current wealth — Howard Marks
Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. — Warren Buffett
[The] greatest investment reward comes to those who by good luck or good sense find the occasional company that over the years can grow in sales and profits far more than industry as a whole. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Compete for deals, low returns, slender margin of error — Howard Marks
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett
Prudent investing is all about buying the right assets at the right price. — Naved Abdali
Investor psychology, priced anywhere, fundamentals — Howard Marks
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. — Warren Buffett
Short Private Equity Quotes
Skillful investors, risk, stability, dependability of value, relationship between price and value — Howard Marks
Fundamentals, value, price, successful investing — Howard Marks
The essence of investing is about buying assets below their intrinsic value. — Gautam Baid
Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep. — Naval Ravikant
If you are buying into a vacuum of conventional wisdom... the potential to capitalize is enormous. — Cathie Wood
Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets, but of buying assets well. — Howard Marks
Long-term investment success, risk control, aggressiveness — Howard Marks
When it comes to investment in equities, it is indeed true that everything comes to he who waits. — Russell Napier
Inefficient markets, generous returns, raw materials, mispricings, differential skill — Howard Marks
Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. — Seth Klarman
3 things to keep private: Your love. Your income. Your next move.
Venture Capital Quotes
We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious. — Chamath Palihapitiya
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States. — Ron Chernow
When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. — Howard Dean
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty. — Vinod Khosla
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined. — Peter Thiel
Be the same person privately, publicly and personally.
I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor. — Masayoshi Son
At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch. — Ben Thompson
If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll. — Caterina Fake
Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything. — Kenneth Arrow
Venture Capitalists Quotes
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. — Gurbaksh Chahal
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. — Adam Osborne
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. — Vinton Cerf
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money. — Bill Gates
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society. — Les Wexner
Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems. — Keith Rabois
Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max. — Fred Wilson
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons. — William H. Gates, Sr.
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. — Elon Musk
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free! — Guy Kawasaki
Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead. — Matt Taibbi
In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world. — Charlie Munger
I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up with their age cohorts at Goldman. This can't possibly end well in terms of meeting these expectations. — Charlie Munger
It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are. — Kenneth Rogoff
I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up. — Jim Rogers
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps. — Bill Moyers
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud. — Michael Lewis
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient. — David Rubenstein
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. — Wilbur Ross
Some of the very best private equity people, in my experience, are people who start out as stock pickers - people who really understood value, how to take a company's financials apart and couple that with good judgment about businesses, macro trends, and where things are going. — David Bonderman
The private equity world is a relatively small one. There are currently probably a few thousand professional jobs worldwide. In private equity, that's probably about all there is. So in the scheme of things, the firms are all relatively small. — David Bonderman
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. — David Bonderman
It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society. — David Rubenstein
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Let's face it, we're skunk drunk and it's because of money. It's almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together. This time, it's not stock market money but private equity, M&A, VCs and to some degree the reckless abandonment of logic by some advertisers who are perpetuating what is sure to end badly when the economy turns. Hubris is back my friends. — Steve Rubel
Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake. — Hillary Clinton
If you have money draining out of the public equity markets, that inevitably affects the private equity market. They cannot exist going in different directions because somehow that will rent the fabric of the universe. It's just not permitted that that happens. Obviously there can be anomalies for brief periods of time but it just can't happen forever. — Kevin Kinsella
Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now private equity funds are piling in. Primarily because interest rates are virtually zero so there's no fixed income play and they're not moving around. — Kevin Kinsella
A consolidation makes sense only if you can lower your overall interest rate. Many people consolidate by taking out a home equity line loan or home equity line of credit (HELOC), refinancing a mortgage, or taking out a personal loan. They then use this cheaper debt to pay off more expensive debt, most frequently credit card loans, but also auto loans, private student loans, or other debt. — Jean Chatzky
Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think he was referring to some of the European banks shedding assets, and the big buyers are probably not going to be big American banks. Someone like Blackstone may have a very good chance to buy those assets, leverage them, borrow up a little bit, and do something good there. — Jamie Dimon
Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that. — Noel Clarke
The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed. — Bob Rice
Not all private equity people are evil. Only some. — Paul Krugman
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack. — Austen Chamberlain
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. — Austin Ligon
The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money. — Thomas G. Stemberg
Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions. — Michael Lee-Chin
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds. — Ehud Barak
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed. — Bill Gross
If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money. — James Surowiecki
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