Schwarzman Blackstone Quotes & Sayings

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth. — Deb Caletti

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. — Henri Frederic Amiel

When the legendary Steve Schwarzman's firm went public in 2007, I was convinced that this was merely an opportunity to take advantage of a huge spike in the stock market for the partners in Blackstone to cash out and ultimately call it a day. I saw the public offering then as an unworthy investment, which could only serve to fill the partners' pockets while they proceeded to 'mail it in' for their new shareholders. But I have been proven completely wrong. Blackstone's history since its public offering is a continued history of success stories, and I believe the current energy restructuring opportunity will be no different. Elsewhere in this book, I talk a bit about the deal it made with Linn Energy, with very advantageous terms for Blackstone. As a long-term hold, I can find no better (public) PE firm to invest in. — Dan Dicker

Stone, I must be stone, I must be Casterly Rock, hard and unmovable. — George R R Martin

Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless. — Bryan Batt

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now. — Debra Wilson

One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it? — Terry Pratchett

You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you! — Israelmore Ayivor

And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. — Kahlil Gibran

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors. — Martin Luther

Humility is really a subjective matter. Only God can truly tell a man who's humble! — Kingsley C. Okei

She is the only one who knows
of the Coldness: a feeling that comes sometimes when I'm
lying in bed, a black, empty feeling that knocks my breath
away and leaves me gasping as though I've just been
thrown in icy water. On nights like that - although it is wrong
and illegal - I think of those strange and terrible words, I
love you, and wonder what they would taste like in my
mouth, try to recall their lilting rhythm on my mother's
tongue. — Lauren Oliver

That slow burn wait while it gets dark, bruising the sun.
I feel grown up with you in your car, I know it's dumb. — Lorde

Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as a manufactory for its own use. Yet even the human race ... reveals in itself with most terrible distinctness this conflict, this variance of the will with itself; and we find homo homini lupus. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. — Geezer Butler

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty. — Pauly Shore