Michael Davis
Michael Davis
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The things that people really want aren't the things that are traditionally given away on television.
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Inventory levels have been held back because of the pervasive pessimism in technology. There was resistance to build inventory because of fear of charges.
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The last thing I'm going to do is run around town trying to tell anybody that darts is going to be the next poker, ... but darts had a lot to recommend it to American television. It fits into that intersection of American popular culture and sports and regular life, which poker has readily occupied. So there are some similarities.
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There's a strong handset replacement cycle going on right now that will generate the next phase of growth, ... First it was color and camera phones and now it will be higher resolution and video enabled phones that will be prevalent this holiday season.
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It's been fun to learn and see what he does firsthand.
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It isn't the intent that you run around and have these meetings at a restaurant. It's a pretty bad policy.
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With a good performance and at least some encouraging tones from Chambers, we could get a change of mood on the Street. It's desperately needed. It's time we focus on fundamentals.
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When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.
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We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.
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We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.
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We've gotten ahead of ourselves for a couple of months now, ... Right now people are on hold because some of these valuations do look a little high. I think people are just waiting for further confirmation that things are going to spill out into the earnings field.
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We were like a bouncing ball. We didn't really have any direction or management. We were trying to be organized from within. We didn't have anyone saying 'keep going with this' or anyone that was out promoting us with any effect. We were doing it ourselves and we were not getting anywhere. Trying to make our own little singles and what else can you do? We didn't have any kind of patrons.
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You get bored just riding around by yourself all the time.
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We haven't figured out who (posted the money) or how he was able to bail out,