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...bankers have stayed focused. He also notes that last Thursday when the House resolution was passed to impose a special bonus tax on employees of many troubled financial institutions, including Citi, nothing out of the ordinary happened in Citi's offices. He says he hasn't had to spend a lot of time defending the firm, nor has he noticed any government intervention in running his part of the business. "In the last several months I have gotten calls from friends asking how I am doing," says Shafir. "But I would guess that is no different from any investment banker...
...What is rarely mentioned is that the best CEOs spend most of their time thinking about what will put their companies out of business and doing something to prevent this catastrophe. Although it may be overly simplistic, GE did it decades ago when it diversified away from being in the light bulb and electric fan businesses that were its beginnings in the 1890s. Some investors would say that GE is too diverse now, but its system served the company well for the great majority of the years during the last century...
...heads of publishing companies have spend most of the last 20 years worrying about the costs of organized labor, the price of printing paper, and postal rates. It clearly did not occur to them that the early internet successes like Lycos, Excite, and Altavisa were in the information gathering, sorting, and creating businesses. Their indexing and presentation of content looked clumsy in 1997 and 1998. It is incredible to remember that Yahoo! (YHOO) had its first day of 100,000 unique visitors in 1994. The company went public in early 1996. Google (GOOG) raised $25 million...
...getting a drug to market hugely expensive. But the expectations of investors have to be tempered as well. The 15-20% [growth] of some companies is not going to be possible in the future. A third of staff of some big pharmacy companies work in marketing, and many companies spend twice as much on marketing as R&D. That has got to go. I mean for Christ's sake, it's hopeless...
...build, because they're great things to have once they're up and running. If the nuclear industry hadn't been so screwy before TMI, we might not be so dependent on filthy coal plants today. But we are. Now we have to make fresh choices about where to spend our energy dollars, and we don't have the trillions of dollars it would take to solve our energy problems with a nuclear renaissance. As President Obama has said, nuclear power will remain part of our energy mix, but wind and efficiency are where we need to expand...