John Malone Quotes
100 John Malone Quotes
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You start looking for what opportunities exist that you can take advantage of in what is essentially a very tight credit environment.
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You’ve got to play both offense and defense.
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[In April 2009] Who knows how big the hole is that we’re drifting into as a national economy, as a global economy?
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Long-term valuations are going to be a function of long-term interest rates.
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I used to say in the cable industry that if your interest rate was lower than your growth rate, your present value is infinite. That’s why the cable industry created so many rich guys.
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Inflation lets you raise your rates and devalue your liabilities.
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The administration can talk about raising taxes on rich people, but the rich people just aren’t very rich any more, in case anybody’s looked.
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Even if you don’t postulate high growth rates, you can generate high equity returns if you can leverage them up.
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Good businesses with good life expectancies will find credit…
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[In April 2009] We’re sitting with cash looking for opportunity and with liabilities looking to be devalued by government policy.
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[In April 2009] Stocks are cheap; companies aren’t.
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God help us if we think we can pick winners and losers when it comes to making movies. Even the good guys don’t know how to do that.
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You could put all these things back together, and it’d be a big company. But so what? Other than bragging rights, what the hell good does that do for anybody?
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I have a real hard problem with government statistics…
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Anybody can manipulate statistics almost any way.
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I don't think anybody's immune from a severe recession.
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Latin America is booming…
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I think it's perfectly logical… that the phone companies and the satellite companies will align with each other - over time. Not necessarily combine, but align. And bundle.
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You attempt to build up unique content that's unique to you…
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I don't think it's in the interest of anybody in the media business to see video follow music… It killed the content.
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When I stick to my knitting I do okay. It's - it's when I listen to some
pied piper.
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Everybody is, I guess, subject to getting - sweet talked.
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I see an economic model that might pay for it. But if you basically say, ‘I'm gonna walk away from the current economic model, right, and I'm going to replace it with random access to my stuff, because the public likes it better, then you gotta tell me that the public's gonna have to pay for it somehow.’
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[On charging business for internet delivered product] Even Dow Jones worked 20 years to built it up.
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I'm just not a big believer that the public identifies the internet with subscription
payments.
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The reality is we were always in favor of the spin-offs.
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It's pretty hard to compare anybody's success with Google or with Microsoft.
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I don't even think that the Google guys had an economic model for Google until late…
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[On Google] I don't know how innovation really can be described. But they certainly found the mother lode.
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[On Google] The bigger they get, the stronger they get.
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He can't spit the hook.
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[On Rupert Murdoch] I told Rupert in all sincerity that when that block came available in Australia-- you know, my instructions to my guys were if Newscorp or Rupert bid for it, we don't bid against them. But if nobody's there bidding for it, you know, we buy it. And we did.
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We invested quite a bit of money in Newscorp when he really desperately needed it way back early. And when he got in trouble with the triangle financing and the high leveraged loan regulations came in.
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[On Ted Turner] They blew Ted out… I personally think that was a mistake.
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I have - roughly 32 percent of the votes, yeah. And I'm in love with that… It's motherhood and apple pie.
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Content can be global…
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[On United Global] We've brought back 40 percent of the stock. So for the shareholders, you know, they own 40 percent more of it now than they did when we started. So I'm thrilled with it. I think it's a terrific company.
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You have leveraged cash flow growth, no taxes, long-term leverage at low interest rates. It's, you know, it's terrific.
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[On Sumner Redstone] He made me famous by suing me for three billion dollars or something… But… I like Sumner a lot… He started when he was 65 to really grow National Amusements… And what can you say?
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You have to at least worry about inflation and devaluation.
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