LOYALTY

I joined Blackstone at 22 years old and never left. People ask me if I missed out by not going anywhere else. I went from a junior analyst to overseeing a trillion dollars. I think I did okay.

When Mugabe's government tried to shut me down, my employees kept showing up to work every morning. That told me everything I needed to know about the business — and about the people.

I was fired on a Friday and started DoubleLine on Monday. Within a year my old clients brought me 12 billion dollars. Loyalty is earned.

I have been at JP Morgan for 28 years. Loyalty is underrated in an industry that changes jobs every three years.

When your floor price drops 90%, you find out who's here for the community and who was here for the flip.

The membership model creates predictable revenue. Skip-the-month gives flexibility. Customers get value. We get loyalty.

I gave 14 of my closest friends a million dollars each in a suitcase. They were there when I had nothing.

Thirty-seven years at one firm. In hedge funds, that's like a geological era.

I played 20 years for one organization. Loyalty isn't a weakness. It's the foundation of everything I've built.

People ask me why I stayed in Milwaukee. Because Milwaukee believed in me when I was nobody. You do not leave a city that believed in you.

I didn't realize until I was already gone how lucky I was to drive for Hendrick Motorsports my entire career.

I own one percent of Huawei. The rest belongs to our employees. That is how you build loyalty.

I am willing to use everything I have — my personal assets, everything — to protect Sunac. This is not just a business. It is what I built with my life.

We built Bet365 in Stoke because that is where we are from. I do not see any reason to be anywhere else.