30 Quotes by Peter Doyle

A credit card company is really just a computer. There are really few physical limitations to growth.

The big thing about the Internet is really the distribution capabilities, and a lot of what goes on in the Internet is not about technology. It's really about having a proprietary good or service that you can deliver over the technology. And we're trying to focus on those companies that we think have something proprietary that will likely bring people back repeatedly.

They own two very fast-growing cable stations: Home and Garden and the Food Network, and their using the Internet to increase advertising and also have some commerce from that,

There was a lot of speculative excess that had to be shaken out of the market. And I think that's what we're seeing here today.

As more people get on the Internet and they get more savvy and learn how to use it, they'll just go straight to the brands,

A company's fortunes generally don't change over a month's time or so, ... We want them to be able to execute their business strategy, and we give them at least three to five years.

It's still going to take some time for us to work through what's been testing the markets for months before we can safely say we've hit a bottom and are set to move higher.

Either a business has good economics or it doesn't. If it's not going to be good for a three-month period, it won't be good for a long period of time, and vice-versa.

It just shows you how risky it can be, ... One company reported pretty good numbers and the market jumped very aggressively on that. I think it's going to be a case-by-case basis.