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  1. 18-10-2017, 07:49 PM #12441
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beagle View Post
    ...politics is politics and business is business.
    Hah! Obviously you have never dealt with any of the companies I have been involved with!

    I see Qantas have a new fuel efficient toy

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  2. 18-10-2017, 10:32 PM #12442
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    And Sir John is getting his PhD soon, from good ol canty uni. Soon we wont know what the hell to call him? Sir Dr John Key PhD.
    Good on him he made a plan for himself and didn't it just work out the way he wanted it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Paper Tiger View Post
    Hah! Obviously you have never dealt with any of the companies I have been involved with!

    I see Qantas have a new fuel efficient toy


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    Good they finally have one, AIR have so many I've almost lost count
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beagle View Post
    Good they finally have one, AIR have so many I've almost lost count
    The trick, for when the next one arrives, is to take your socks off
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    Okay, I promise to take my socks off if you promise to take your blinkers off
    Ecclesiastes 11:2: “Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.”
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  6. 19-10-2017, 08:46 AM #12446
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clints View Post
    True, but Sir John was a successful businessman before a becoming a successful politician.
    Sorry but he was never a good businessman.
    He was a good team manager but that isn't the same as being a good businessman.
    If he became chair I'd sell straight away. Innovation would stop!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dobby41 View Post
    Sorry but he was never a good businessman.
    He was a good team manager but that isn't the same as being a good businessman.
    If he became chair I'd sell straight away. Innovation would stop!
    He was a good gambler (trader) I’m told

    But we mustn’t upset his adoring followers must we dobby41
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    Quote Originally Posted by dobby41 View Post
    Sorry but he was never a good businessman.
    He was a good team manager but that isn't the same as being a good businessman.
    If he became chair I'd sell straight away. Innovation would stop!
    He was a forex trader. I don't equate that with being a businessman.
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  9. 19-10-2017, 09:02 AM #12449
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    Quote Originally Posted by weasel View Post
    He was a forex trader. I don't equate that with being a businessman.
    Actually I think he managed a team of forex traders - not sure he actually did trading himself.
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  10. 19-10-2017, 11:09 AM #12450
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    Quote Originally Posted by weasel View Post
    He was a forex trader. I don't equate that with being a businessman.
    What do you define as a businessman?

    Because whether you like him or not, his senior management role at Meryl Lynch and the firms preceding it, fit the objective definition of businessman.
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