If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
If you're constantly making business decisions on behalf of your investors first, ultimately you're going to wear down your other stakeholders. It's going to be potentially hurtful for your employees and your customers and the community you do business with.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.
I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.
It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.