GEORGE ROBERTS

We don't buy companies to strip them. We buy companies to make them better.

The leveraged buyout is not about leverage. It's about operational improvement.

Staples was a $2.5 million bet. It became a $19 billion company. That's what conviction looks like.

Private equity has a bad reputation. But the returns speak for themselves.

RJR Nabisco defined an era. Not all of it was pretty, but it proved that LBOs could work at any scale.

Henry and I ran KKR together for 48 years. Family businesses work when egos don't get in the way.