5 Quotes by John Laughlin

CEOs are highly skilled people like a pro athlete or artist, selling a skill, ... It?s very hard to put a monetary value on a skill, but a good quarterback makes $10 million a year, based on an athletic skill, in the same way a painting might bring in $10 million to an artist.

I suspect that we may differ with the selectmen on any number of issues overall but you have to respect their courage and leadership on a tough issue like this override. These four selectmen took a stand to address an immediate problem. Had they not, anything from cutting library hours to the layoff of vital public safety workers, would have resulted.

With Lithia, you have a CEO who is not only the major stock owner but the person over the last 20 years that has taken all the risks by deciding to do the expansion he has done,

High pay is partially due to competition for executives and being able to keep them, ... They know other companies in that field pay that kind of money. If they don?t the person is going to be gone in a very short period of time.

I don't think we ever saw the man, but the older lady, you'd see her coming up and down the driveway occasionally.