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Article #622031Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 02:16
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 02:16
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 13:43:12 -0700, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: >> On 2018-04-27, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >>> On 2018-04-27, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting article on MarketWatch a day or so about Sears. Apparently >>>> Eddie Lampert, the guy who bought it thru his hedge fund was interested in >>>> maximizing "shareholder value" at the expense of everting else. There's no >>>> long-term in p%ssing off your employees and customers to milk a couple >>>> more dollars from it. >>> >>> Who's thinking long term? Take the money and run. >> >> "A long term investment is a short term investment that went wrong." >> >> -- Sir James Goldsmith. >> >> > >Who has made more money, Goldsmith or Buffet? Goldsmith kicked it 20 years ago so it's hard to say.
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