— Bryan Burrough and John HelyarKravis, whose name was practically synonymous with LBOs, was a legend on Wall Street. Kohlberg Kravis controlled more than two dozen companies it had acquired, using borrowed money, since its founding in 1976. It wasn’t every day, Johnson mused, you got the chance to meet a legend.
Replicated under Fair Use from Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. (Pg. 100)