David Bonderman Quotes

#1. Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.

Louise Imogen Guiney

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

David Bonderman

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

David Bonderman

#4. I write the most sexiest records out.

Kool Keith

#5. My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

Josh Duhamel

#6. I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including "The Laughing Monsters," "Being Mortal," and "Heart of Darkness." Or as the cashier put it, "You OK, man? Maybe a little 'Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?'

Jimmy Fallon

#7. The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Ram Dass

#8. He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Robert Ludlum

#9. I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#10. My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

Pete Seeger

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

David Bonderman

#12. I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. Silence is a still noise.

Josh Billings

#14. Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

Jerry Hall

#15. We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.

James Frey

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

David Bonderman

#17. She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.

Jenny Offill

#18. Messi is undoubtedly a gifted footballer, like Maradona and Pele, and he's playing for the best club side in the world at the moment. He's successful and he's winning trophies, so it's only logical that he'll be voted the best player in the world.

Oliver Kahn

#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'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

Mandy Patinkin