If You Could Own Any Company, What Would It Be And Why?

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Finality

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FTV that guy gets a mad number of chicks.

Other than that for a pure money play Exxon Mobil without a doubt or for the coolness factor Ferrari.
 

Zolty

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google, in the palo alto campus, that place rocks from the pictures I have seen.
 

Ipno

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GE so I could fire the guy in the next cubicle who is irritating the crap out of me.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: iversonyin
Goldman Sach.

Retailers' margins are so thin, same with energy/oil companies.

XOM has 4x EBITDA of GS. Own XOM and LBO GS.
 

oogabooga

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Standard oil is an excellent choice and would probably be what I would pick
- If you said it had to be a business still running, I'd probably go with Walmart and try to make it... less evil, who cares, I'm bloody rich!
 

iversonyin

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Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: iversonyin
Goldman Sach.

Retailers' margins are so thin, same with energy/oil companies.

XOM has 4x EBITDA of GS. Own XOM and LBO GS.

Don't like the future prospect of XOM. Think replenishing reserve, think oil peak.

So what oil going to $100/barrel, if you cant find more, you are done. And try liquidate bunch of oil rigs...

50 years down the road, you would be glad you have GS instead of XOM.
 

iversonyin

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Originally posted by: 3cho
i would go back in time and resurrect LTCM

I think bunch of existing hedge funds are bigger and better than LTCM.

So much for bunch of finance professors.... JWN Partners still exist by the way.
 

multiband8303

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Hate the company....but I'd have to say Walmart - Walton would've been the richest man in the world if alive to this day, his assett split to his family and widow combined overwhelm (not by much) then Mr. Gates himself.


...and then I'd burn every store to the ground. Yay.
 

ultimatebob

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Originally posted by: Pale Rider
IBM. Largest computing company on the planet. Their R&D has some pretty damn cool things going on right now.

I'd rather have the top job at Oracle. Larry's got billions in stock, and a really bitchin' yacht and sailing team!