51 Quotes by Irv DeGraw

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    They were having some difficulty getting this deal done because the company is very highly leveraged. It's a very risky deal, and if it weren't for the superstar management team, no one would pay attention to it.

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    They've got all the magic words between appliances and Linux, but there is also some meat behind this. It's not just smoke and mirrors; it's a real business. We're seeing more and more of these companies moving away from ephemeral dot.com businesses and getting into real businesses.

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    They have a phenomenal growth rate, attractive outlook, and an extraordinary cash burn. They are a momentum play at a time when the market is very skeptical about momentum plays.

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    This is the kind of stock you buy and put away and in four or five years you'll be very happy.

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    This is a wait-and-see for us. We are not surprised by a positive first day but are most concerned with how it behaves after the first day.

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    They're not prepared to handle this kind of volume, and they got squeezed out by the big guys.

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    There's a pretty decent outlook for the longer term. But then there's $2 million in (annual) revenues - that's not going to do it.

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    A confusing symbol or name will affect the stock if people don?t know it. It?s a little more likely it will get lost when doing research. As an investor relations guy, you want every small thing in your favor. As an investor, I?d much prefer AT&T being ATT.

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