You don’t like meetings before 10 am. You like to get 8 hours of sleep.
As a senior executive, you get paid to make a few big decisions regarding future quarters 2 or 3 years in advance. If I make 3 good decisions today that’s good enough.
If Amazon was a startup, that would be different.
Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview
What follows is a conversation with David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, one of the most storied private-equity firms in history. We spoke with Rubenstein in August, 2017, for our six-part series, “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.” Since we spoke, Rubenstein stepped down as co-C.E.O. of Carlyle, but he’s still executive chairman