Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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The fraud is ugly, the perpetrators are gone, and this is an embarrassment in a huge way. Now the issue is one of the new leadership -- can they keep everyone focused, can they keep the wheels on the wagon?
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The growth rate is not very impressive, ... Why pay such an exorbitant multiple on earnings?
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All of a sudden we're getting really material misses that are coming right in the middle of regular earnings. It catches you completely off-guard.
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The economy is not in a position to sustain the kind of upside that bulls require to justify their stance. Stocks are tremendously overvalued, based on what I can see, and it's hard to get too excited about upside potential.
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Lawyers involved in NTP and other patent cases think a deal will come before year-end, or even pre-Christmas, and be valued between $750 million and $1.25 billion. The stock could rally sharply on a deal.
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I went and cashed in all my pennies to come here. It's cheap entertainment. We spent, what, maybe $40 tonight? Cheaper than going to the movies.
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If unearned revenue keeps sliding, it suggests the growth story for Microsoft has gotten long in the tooth and that would raise more worries about the valuation.
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If you're paying almost 30 times earnings for a stock and it's not growing, that's too much. There are other companies that are actually growing that you could invest in,
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For many companies we're not talking about a lot of organic growth. If currency strengthens, as I expect it will, it brings into question whether companies can make their second-quarter numbers.
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For a variety of reasons, we believe that's unlikely,
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