Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup companies and ongoing companies, then to take an active hand in managing them and hopefully, five to eight years later, to harvest them at a significant profit.

CD-ROM marking 25th anniversary of Bain & Company, quoted in Corn, David (27 September 2012), "New Romney Video: In 1985, He Said Bain Would "Harvest" Companies for Profits", Mother Jones, retrieved on 2012-10-03