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“So think about low rates of 1920, and 21, where we raised the capital, and then think about Our average returns being 20 to 25%.”

“15% of every dollar is our own capital, and that's multiplied by a very large dollar amount.”

“We've earned over a thousand basis points higher than The private equity mean during our history”

“Honestly, we were the first ones to really start recruiting right out of college or certainly right after a couple of years in their first job, and I think getting people in early to really get the mentorship and training From people more experienced over a lo…”

“Starting businesses, we've started eight new businesses since 2015, and it's all with our people, and I think the opportunity to do that not by having a brand, And capital, but by having people who have decided they really wanted to really pursue an opportunit…”

“We had 250 people. Two thirds of those people were working inside the companies and we call it getting across the icy river. We got across the icy river, which was probably in some ways we'll never get rewarded for it, but it was probably one of our finest mom…”

“Our ability to generate consistent differentiated thousand basis points of premium over our public equity return reference points”

“I mean, I think that 80% of our people come from consulting and operating backgrounds. It's like the inverse of the rest of the industry, where 80% come from finance and investment backgrounds.”

“We didn't have LPs that were institutional. We didn't know anybody on Wall Street. We actually started out in venture capital and growth equity because you could just write checks, didn't rely on other people's checks. And the money we raised was from the part…”

“We've had the same country managers in Japan, in China, in India, Korea, and Australia from the very beginning, and we've been there for 20 plus years”

“Over time we're a 180. We have two hundred billion of assets. We have 13 strategies.”

“And so we negotiated a carve out three times even though at that time. Which obviously today in the diagnostic world, things trade at 15 to 20 times, so that's a, in of itself, a big opportunity for us.”

“The sellers in this case had two hundred million dollars of preferred on a business that was losing fifty million dollars, and they asked us to put up some money at least to show that we had some risk capital, so we put up seven million dollars. For a business…”

“To take you back, you have to go back to 1973 because Bain and company was started on a very different premise as a consulting firm versus McKinsey and BCG and Booz Allen. Effectively, those firms were talking about big ideas. They sold to multiple clients in …”