Jonathan Pryce credited as playing...
Henry Kravis
- F. Ross Johnson: Well, that LBO stuff is way over my head. I just can't follow it, Henry.
- Henry Kravis: You don't have to. Bankers and lawyers work it all out.
- F. Ross Johnson: All I want from bankers is a new calendar every year and all I care about lawyers is they're back in their coffins before the sun comes up.
- Henry Kravis: It's not the company. It's the credibility. My credibility. I can't just sit on the bench and let other people play the game. Not my game. Not with their rules.
- Henry Kravis: We pay off the debt in buying the company with cash from it's ongoing operation and by selling off pieces of the business.
- F. Ross Johnson: That's french for firing people isn't it, Henry.
- Henry Kravis: As few as possible of course.
- F. Ross Johnson: [pause] A few dozen, ten thousand?
- Henry Kravis: [longer pause then softly] As I said as few as possible.
- F. Ross Johnson: [pause] I couldn't do that. I couldn't live with the fallout.
- Henry Kravis: I'd take care of that.
- F. Ross Johnson: Ya, I don't shave your face in my mirror every morning. All that aside I've never been a big fan of debt.
- Henry Kravis: Debt can be an asset. Debt tightens a company.
- F. Ross Johnson: It does wonders for the sphincter too.