12 Quotes by Donald Yacktman
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Would I like to have a man like Buffett on the board? You bet. But can I blame him for going off? Not at all. But Buffett, with the amount of shares he owns, will still have an influence.
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Now that the worst lawsuits are fading it seems a golden opportunity to do that. Kraft is limping.
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No company is totally immune from disaster, chaos, recession, you name it, ... But on a scale, ours tend to be most recession-proof.
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Philip Morris still generates enormous amounts of cash, ... We're not giving up yet.
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If we get good prices on the businesses we like, I'm willing to buy,
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Management can focus on one business. From a psychological standpoint as well as from a practical standpoint it's a positive move.
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When people bought these funds, they bought them because they wanted me to manage the funds, not the directors.
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There's only so long you can hold the beach ball under water,
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A delay allows people to have less psychology and more orderly behavior.
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