My father wanted me to go into the oil business. He was in the oil and gas business as a consulting petroleum engineer up in Tulsa.
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Maybe its because my father was so successful in a totally different field, but I found working in a small environment just a great joy.Henry Kravis
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If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.
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I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.
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