I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont mens college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street. – Henry Kravis
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building wont crumble. – Henry Kravis
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. – Henry Kravis
If you dont have integrity, you have nothing. You cant buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. – Henry Kravis
I think theres a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but hes also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. – John Shelton Reed