David Rubenstein: We took $5M and turned it into $500B

“Well, he was famous for saying you should give away all your money. And there's a book of that era, 1929, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. If you really care about the early 20s, it's a great book. Yeah, I thought that was awesome. Other than you cite Lincoln all the time.”

“What are some of the favorite things that you've read in the last six or eight or 12 weeks? I've read a book on Roy Cohn. It's called, I think, American Scoundrel, which is a really good book by Kai Bird. The previous wrote a book on Robert Oppenheimer that won the Pulitzer Prize. And it's just amazing what Roy Cohn was and so forth.”

“And it's just amazing what Roy Cohn was and so forth. Recently read Beverly Gage's book on J. Edgar Hoover, which is an astounding book and won the Pulitzer Prize, a really terrific book. So I'm always reading books. And one of the programs, I have another book coming out this year on my best interviews at the Library of Congress.”

“And we obviously had some great in the 20th century as well. Have you read Manhunt about Lincoln's assassination? I did. That is an interesting book in the sense that John Wilkes Booth thought he would be a hero. And interestingly, what happened there is that had Ulysses S.”

“He's now 90 years old. I also love Titan. That's probably my most favorite business biography. On John D. Rockefeller. Oh, yeah. He was a very fascinating character.”