Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.

- Carol Loomis

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

- Fred Wilson

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

- Ehud Barak

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

- David Bonderman

Raise as little as you can to get you to something that you can show - plus maybe a quarter or two so you have a little bit of cushion - and then raise some more money. Raise as little - not as much - as you can because that's the most expensive equity you're going to sell.

- Douglas Leone

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

- Douglas Leone

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

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

- Denis O'Hare

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

- David Korten

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

- Colman Domingo

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.

- Andy Serkis

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

- Clayton Christensen

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

- Charles Caleb Colton

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

- Benjamin Robbins Curtis

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.

- Bob Diamond

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

- Bill Ackman

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

- Barry Sternlicht

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

- Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

- Bill Gross

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

- Alexander Lebedev