Bonderman Quotes

#1. To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

Jeremy Bonderman

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

David Bonderman

#3. Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

Jeremy Bonderman

#4. Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

David Bonderman

#5. The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

Whitney Thompson

#6. Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

Jeremy Bonderman

#7. None of us had known the layout to Marcone's place, so we'd chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.

Jim Butcher

#8. I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

Jeremy Bonderman

#9. You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.

Jeremy Bonderman

#10. I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

Jeremy Bonderman

#11. We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

Josephine Baker

#12. White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Nikki Giovanni

#13. I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

Manny Montana

#14. Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Jeremy Bonderman

#15. For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Victoria Woodhull

#16. Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Tom Robbins

#17. A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

Jeremy Bonderman

#18. When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

David Bonderman

#19. Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

David Bonderman

#20. I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Jeremy Bonderman

#21. My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.

Geneen Roth

#22. I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

Jeremy Bonderman

#23. Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

David Bonderman

#24. I'm not a big city guy ... there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

Jeremy Bonderman