A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.