You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.
It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.
Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.
There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.
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