- Tom Henderson makes, maybe, 6-7 digits. Larry makes at least 8-9. - In the past 5yrs, Oracle stocks have been going up (bluechip and all that), going from 17.74 to the current 28.86. Was 28.86 1yr ago
One of them if right about Oracle's business practices, the other is wrong.
And lets not forget:
tomhenderson wrote Oracle has a Sun spot: Oracle is pushing itself into a corner, a fantastic money-making corner, but a corner nonetheless.
So let me make my prediction. In the next 12 months, Larry will increase his income by a higher percentage than Tom Henderson.
Seriously now, what is it with analysts continuing saying that people who makes heaps of money, making more each passing year as their business continue to steadily grow and expand, are wrong ?
Larry can be an ahole and a weird, but he is right on the most important business indicator, as well the second and third: making money, stock prices and annual growth.
I'd like to offer the obligatory MS comparison. You can't argue that Microsoft didn't make many wrong decisions (Zune, Windows Mobile, etc over the past ten years. Yet there is Balmer still in charge making more money than I am. Microsoft still makes heaps money. You don't need to make more money than people to recognize bad decisions. That would logically require us to make all elections a wealth measurement exercise.
What makes you think anyone is jealous? I certainly am not.
Same thing with MS - all the business types think its jealousy. It isn't - I truly loathe their business practices, sneaky tactics, *and* their code. All of it.
Deal with that.
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- Tom Henderson makes, maybe, 6-7 digits. Larry makes at least 8-9.
- In the past 5yrs, Oracle stocks have been going up (bluechip and all that), going from 17.74 to the current 28.86. Was 28.86 1yr ago
One of them if right about Oracle's business practices, the other is wrong.
And lets not forget:
So let me make my prediction. In the next 12 months, Larry will increase his income by a higher percentage than Tom Henderson.
Seriously now, what is it with analysts continuing saying that people who makes heaps of money, making more each passing year as their business continue to steadily grow and expand, are wrong ?
Larry can be an ahole and a weird, but he is right on the most important business indicator, as well the second and third: making money, stock prices and annual growth.
He is more successful than you. Deal with it.
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I'd like to offer the obligatory MS comparison. You can't argue that Microsoft didn't make many wrong decisions (Zune, Windows Mobile, etc over the past ten years. Yet there is Balmer still in charge making more money than I am. Microsoft still makes heaps money. You don't need to make more money than people to recognize bad decisions. That would logically require us to make all elections a wealth measurement exercise.
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Did you read TFA ?
Analysts (like the one on TFA) are not talking about specific products. They are talking about company-wide strategic/business decisions.
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Product development costing billions of dollars are not strategic decisions?
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...That would logically require us to make all elections a wealth measurement exercise.
That sounds about right for the U.S. Give it ten years, and we will be there.
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wait they are not?
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It's not about the next year. It's about the next five years.
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What makes you think anyone is jealous? I certainly am not.
Same thing with MS - all the business types think its jealousy. It isn't - I truly loathe their business practices, sneaky tactics, *and* their code. All of it.
Deal with that.