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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.


N. Robert Hammer

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ERIK PAULSEN I think they are trying to buy it cheap. Private equity funds see a lot of potential for growth in t...
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MICHAEL LEE-CHIN The irony of collective ownership is that it spurs more selfishness than does private ownership.
ERIC ROBERT MORSE Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
EDITH WIDDER Our team seems to produce well in front of a hostile crowd. It just spurs our adrenaline.
EVAN WALTERS The key with Merrill is they're not as dependent on some of the venture capital private equity gains...
DIANA YATES We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party ana...
N. ROBERT HAMMER There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is...
N. ROBERT HAMMER One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
N. ROBERT HAMMER The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
N. ROBERT HAMMER Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered vi...
N. ROBERT HAMMER There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but t...
NAVAL RAVIKANT Private-equity buyers are flush with cash, and corporate balance sheets can handle more debt.
IAN RICHARDS I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is h...
DAVID SZE The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.
THOMAS G. STEMBERG This may be the most profitable private equity deal of all time.
DAVID RUBENSTEIN It was a record breaking year for the Asian private equity industry.
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MARTIN O'MALLEY If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong.
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PETER SHAERF A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
DAVID BONDERMAN The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.
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CHARLES CURRAN The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
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CHRIS HAYMONS Companies are seeing some of their fastest growth in China, and it's profitable growth.
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N. MURRAY EDWARDS Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. MURRAY EDWARDS It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the las...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can cre...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
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