Irv Grossbeck
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They've stuck with very high ethical standards.
They hire smart people.
They make changes where necessary.
They treat their people generously.
They treat their customers with respect.
And everybody that I've ever seen Kevin interact with, he's treated with respect.
Another is you can't overpay for good management.
There's no such thing.
You also can't overpay for a great acquisition.
which they worried a little bit about with Lockline.
But it had such a growth trajectory and was so accretive that who even remembers the price unless you're looking back at the records?
And I think that's true as well.
You can't overpay for good management.
You can't overpay for a great company.
I think a mistake that a lot of us make is, oh, boy, that price โ
price for that whatever it is, that's just too much.
I can't bring myself to spend that much money.
Of course, the way to look at it is not today, but it's tomorrow.
And tomorrow, do I really know whether I spent 15% more or not to buy something great?
So that's certainly one of the takeaways.