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Anthony Scilipoti

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The Knowledge Project
Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

And yet it generates meaningful cash because it has a brand.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

People are still willing to pay $8,000 for a new phone.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

There's a lot of competitors.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

And I'm not sure that that will continue forever at the same rate.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

In fact, it's already slowing.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

And that debt that they've taken on to buy all back all those shares to generate that EPS growth, that could end up being a problem.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

If they instead took that money and went out and bought businesses, operating businesses within its network that would ensure its sustainability, and it's been doing some of that, but continually do that.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

Imagine if it just kept the cash and all of a sudden the business that it always wanted to buy suffered a bad quarter and it bought it.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

It's very difficult.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

When you have a lot of cash, cash is king.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

Cash is power.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

You know, we've been talking, and again, it goes to one of my rules about being negative sounds smart.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

If the market falls or suffers some kind of setback, you shouldn't be concerned.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

You shouldn't be scared.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

In fact, I did a trip to China, life-changing practically, earlier this year.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

I'd never been before.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

And when I went to China, if you go and I met with analysts there and taught them our training process, and when they look at their screen, stocks that are down are green.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

Stocks that are up are red.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

that's how you should rejig your screen.

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Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

In fact, I've called FactSet and Bloomberg and see if we can change that.