Brad Jacobs

“We have to hire people who are psycho chromatically test high on the need to win scale and low on the need to be liked scale.”

“He said they made a powerful software acquisition with a politically incorrect name called rental man. And we use that to integrate all of our rental businesses. We rolled up into that company. We couldn't have made the hundreds of acquisitions we did without …”

“The difference between what we do and this guy is this guy's essentially starting a new business. And what we like to do is find a business that's already working where we can actually just leave it. And make it, you know, maybe we'll help plug in a new CEO or…”

“He likes to buy companies between five and 10 times earnings. And that's like his number.”

“And this person is super interesting because they have started five companies that have either gone public or are worth over a billion dollars.”

“Within 13 months, we became number one leapfrogging Hertz, which had become the equipment rental, which was the number one equipment rental business in 1965.”