I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.
Each time I think I’ve created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
I’m afraid I’m still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.
I don’t know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
I’m a very private person. My life story isn’t for everybody.
Private confession… was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain’s era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
I haven’t shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
Because I’m always with other people, I don’t have private times and can’t easily do what I really want to do. However, this is not necessarily so bad.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.
There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don’t care to share them.
Life of an actor is not his or hers: it’s everyone’s life. Nothing is private; nothing is personal. If you’re doing great in terms of work, that’s the price you’ve to give.
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It’s just remarkable.
We’ve got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We’re not gonna get the best people in public life if we don’t do that.
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women’s movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
I don’t think anyone’s private life stands up to public scrutiny.
I’m the most private person.
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride… it’s not much but at least I have my pride.
Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn’t have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That’s the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.
Celebrity damages private life.
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.
I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They’re the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
My private life’s quite sad.
I’m a very private person. I barely tell my friends what’s going on half the time, so the idea that I should then talk to the world about what is going on seems anathema to me. People can say what they want. I’m not going to change anyone’s mind.
Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name Apollo on it. And I’d walk around with it. People would say, ‘Hey, there’s that Apollo kid.’ That’s where the name generated from.
Earning high returns isn’t just a matter of bragging rights – endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.
A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
Until the province is willing to look internally at their inflated budget, to engage the private sector, to exhaust every other available avenue, we can’t justify a series of costly new taxes on residents who are already telling us that they just can’t afford it.
While this has been a private part of my family’s life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.
I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don’t need experts?
The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American’s needs for a skilled work force.
The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote… so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1.
