With all due respect to Procter & Gamble, I wanted to be an entrepreneur.
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Henry R. Kravis
Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
United States
Business and finance
35 answers
I have always been impatient.
Our wedding day is tied with the births of my three children as the best days of my life.
it’s that grit, that determination, that fortitude, that gets you through what you set out to do.
I’m very proud of that and I started a drug and substance abuse program in middle schools in New York to help the worst performing schools.
Oh, all the time. We have a fear all the time. But that’s what keeps us going, that’s what keeps us focused. You have to have a fear. People who say, “I have no fear. I’m not afraid of ever failing,” are kidding themselves. Sometimes it’s the fear of failure, of not wanting to fail, that makes people as great as they are. I know that’s what pushes me, a lot.
What I would do differently? When I went through school, I was in a hurry. I was an economics major as an undergraduate, and I was a finance major in graduate school. I was in a hurry to succeed when I got out in the business world. I’m sorry I didn’t take more courses in the humanities and in history and in the arts.
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