David Rubenstein Quotes

• Persiste: no aceptes un no por respuesta. Si te conformas con sentarte en tu escritorio y no asumir ningún riesgo, estarás sentado en tu escritorio durante los próximos 20 años.

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  Money, Years, Risk

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• El mundo es un lugar complicado y hay mucha división entre la gente. Las artes escénicas tienden a unir a la gente como ninguna otra cosa lo hace.

  David Rubenstein

  Art, People, Theatre

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• People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

  David Rubenstein

  Thinking, People, Used

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• It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.

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  Mean, Benefits, Helping

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• You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.

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  Thinking, Giving, Choices

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• Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.

  David Rubenstein

  Giving, Determined, Making Money

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• What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

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  People, Community, Wish

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• I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

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  Ideas, Giving Money, People

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• Tengo la suerte de que sólo necesito cinco horas de sueño al día. Suelo considerar el sábado y el domingo como días de trabajo.

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  Blessed, Sleep, Sunday

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• Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

  David Rubenstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Decision

  "All-American" with Morley Safer, www.cbsnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• Do not always say no. If satisfied with the seat in place and not reckless, the next 20 years you will still sit there alone

  David Rubenstein

  Years, Next, Reckless

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• I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

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  Want, Rich, Cemetery

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• I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

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  Pensamiento, Derecho, Personas

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• Regalo alrededor del 50% de mis ingresos, así que mi deseo de devolver algo al país es muy fuerte y tengo intención de dar mucho más. He firmado el compromiso de donación con Warren Buffett y Bill Gates, y tengo la intención de donar la mayor parte de mi dinero.

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  Country, Strong, Giving

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• I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

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  Fuel, Brunch, Persons

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• I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

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  Organization, Two, Causes

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• Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

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  Growing Up, Educational, Thinking

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• I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

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  Age, Nonprofits, Wanted

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• When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

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  Blanco, Casa, Presidente

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• I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

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  Views, Giving Money, Trying

  "The Billionaires’ Loophole" by Alec MacGillis, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2016.

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• As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

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  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

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  Opera, Compelling

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• My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

  David Rubenstein

  Life Is, Intense

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• Mi padre trabajó en una oficina de correos y probablemente nunca ganó más de 8.000 dólares al año como empleado de correos, así que cuando la gente puede levantarse desde circunstancias muy modestas y tener éxito económicamente, creo que eso es algo bueno de Estados Unidos, y deberíamos fomentar ese tipo de actividad.

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  Padre, Pensamiento, América

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• Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible.

  David Rubenstein

  Thinking, Community, Decision

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