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but let's start with, we buy companies;
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we borrow money to buy those companies.
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Historically, it's been about three dollars of debt
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for every one dollar of equity.
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We then improve those companies
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through a whole variety of sort of managerial actions
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and then those companies grow with the general economy.
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Let's say--if they just grow at the regular rate of all companies,
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then if you're leveraged three-to-one,
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you're going to earn a much better return.
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If you take a company and can accelerate its growth
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so it's growing faster