Tony James

So I would say most people as a result, hang on too long.

Yep.

And I believe you've got to move out of that seat while you have plenty of gas and you're still at the peak of your performance and the company's still on the rise.

If you wait till it tops out, you're going to lose momentum for a while before maybe the new guy can correct it.

And there was no reason to lose that momentum.

And I'm going to love my I love my years at Blackstone, but I I've loved my every day since.

Well, we had we had a lot of great talent, some of whom you've talked to.

And and, you know, they're all they're remarkable people.

I would say, first of all, John ran our biggest business.

So let's start with that.

But beyond that, he's a great leader.

He's a very natural leader.

He's a wonderful external spokesman.

He's much better than I am about that.

John has a knack for seeing, in a very complex, cluttered environment, he has a knack for seeing the simple path and right path through it.

He works incredibly hard.

And

So I think John was a great choice, and he's very decisive, and he's got very good investment instincts.

So, I mean, how lucky was I to have John that I can hand the reins to?

Because it would have been a failure if I hadn't.