• Brian Lamb: : The name Bain came up with a person in that chair, the mayor of Atlanta, a couple of weeks ago when she said that they -- she had hired Bain -- or Bain may have volunteered to tell her what was wrong with the City of Atlanta. And it made all the difference in the world.

• Governor Mitt Romney: Well, Bain is an excellent firm in the consulting industry where truly bright people come together to devote their thinking power, analytical power, data-gathering power to take problems apart and look at them in a new way.

And I learned a lot by having been there for a number of years. I got to serve as an officer there. Ultimately became chief executive officer there. I left it after about a decade and started a firm that’s in venture capital and buys companies as well.

But it’s a place where thinking and rigorous analytical approach is combined with some pretty sound business principles. And a number of companies and governments as well have been able to get some valuable insights from that company.

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