If we wait for the financing, sometimes the timing of a project just doesn't ever materialize. And I watched so many things, great ideas die on the vine and I didn't really want that to keep happening.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer — The Ordeal of Change
Leverage buyouts taught me that the real risk isn't paying too much — it's being wrong about the durability of the cash flow. A business that earns steadily through recessions is worth almost any price; one that merely looks cheap in a boom is a trap dressed as an opportunity.
Henry Kravis — KKR Investor Conference remarks
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. And so it is with the long voyage of life — but how seldom do we think of this when we are young, and planning our first departure!
Henry Ward Beecher — Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit