Cohesive Capital

“Quick no's I've learned are almost as good as yes's. And people often just say, wow, that's just so awesome. You're telling us no, like this quickly without, you know, drawing it out.”

“Well, if you have everybody unanimous, then no one wants to be negative during the process. And nobody wants to say, I don't like it, okay, I'm good. So let somebody say they don't like it and say no. And I really thought that was genius.”

“We try when we say no more often than not to make it about us, not about them. We don't want to tell them their baby's ugly.”

“I think we've decided that very commodity oriented cyclical businesses don't work in a private equity setting very well. It doesn't help that everybody also just hates oil and gas and you're better off in more nimble vehicles where you can get in at the right …”

“We bought a company from a seventy-seven-year-old man in Port Washington, Long Island, called Dijana, now called Outworks. And his company plowed the snow and then melted that snow with proprietary melters at seven of the nine snowiest airports in America. And…”