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Yeh, as always the devil's in the details but he would also put it

another way. He would say that he gave the company his money by buying their shares and they were demonstrating they didn't have any better ideas about what to do with it than he did. Therefore, he chose his investment poorly.

My Prof was Robert Higgins who wrote the book U Wash and Harvard and many other business schools use. So he wasn't just being a flippant hack and he meant it.

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