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Subject: 
Re: The Bar Does Not Go Down
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Date: 
Mon, 10 May 2004 17:14:30 GMT
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Anthony Sava wrote:

Feel free to correct me if I've left a success out.

   More than five decades as a successful company. Um, make that a successful
company with global name recognition, fan clubs & conventions, etc.

And that is that even though your focus groups tested your
products well, and even though you 'KNOW' what you're
doing, the past does not lie.

   Hmmm... that, I thought, was a point in LEGOs favor.

In my humble opinion, LEGO does not KNOW what it's doing.  LEGO
does not KNOW what's best for the company.

   OK, fair enough. But keep in mind stock prices are not set on "opinions", but
usually long-term performance.

A they say, those who fail to learn from the
past are doomed to repeat it.  I'd rather not repeat parts
of the last ten years.

   On that (as a primarily technic-oriented AFOL), I'd have to sadly agree. But
I will whole-heartedly look forward to the next fifty years if they are even
half as successful as the last fifty.

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: The Bar Does Not Go Down
 
(...) Stock prices aren't relevant here; LEGO is privately held. However, I agree with your point. Let's have a little optimism here folks! --Bill. (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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  The Bar Does Not Go Down
 
I just know I'm going to get flamed for this. I'm putting on my flame suit early. What follows are my opinions. Take them as you wish. I don't plan on doing much with this thread, so don't expect too many replies from me. It seems to me, for some (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego) !! 

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