Stan Lee Quotes

You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

I would not rule out Rupert Murdoch once again having control of 'Sky News.'

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor.

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.

Historians, studying us, will say that we allowed corporations to become the government.

I never look at an acquisition really by size.