I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.