Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.

What you find when you live in the United States, you live in the West, is that when somebody fails, it's never their fault. They always like to blame somebody other than themselves for a failure.

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

There are no patents in finance.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.