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.

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

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.