30 Quotes by Robert Manne

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    We've done it in Tibet, and we've done one in Greenland.

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    The pressure is hardly off. It's just as much pressure as it has been, it's just without the albatross of bankruptcy hanging over it.

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    Those guys are looking for a quick turnaround and are willing to take the relatively high risk that goes along with it.

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    You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

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    We don't have to go to a glacier in Tibet to find a missing airman, ... We've got some of them in our own backyard.

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    We want to be able to understand what happened to him fully, ... And we also want to be able to answer whatever questions the family may have about 'exactly what happened to my son, my brother.'

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    There's a fine balance between keeping the pressure on and pushing people over the edge. The judge has to have a light finger on the trigger.

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    They've got a back-to-the-future approach. The company historically did very well when it was risk averse. They flew for the military, flew for wholesalers, flew for people who paid up front.

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    They performed pretty well on the operating line, ... It was on revenue growth, not on cost cutting.

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