Tag: microsoft

Apple today announced that its founder and Chairman, Steven P. Jobs, has passed away.  The world has lost one of a kind.

No description really suits Jobs.  He was not just a manager, an inventor, an engineer, an artist, a control freak, a salesman or an inspirational speaker, yet he was in part all of those. 

Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, said of innovation, "If you ask the public what they think they will need, you will always be behind in this world. You will never catch up unless you think one to 10 years in advance and create a market for the items you think the public will accept

Is Apple's stock (AAPL) overvalued?  As a person who's been following the stock since the mid 1990s and has owned shares since 2007, let me play devil's advocate.

A buddy suggested I write about stocks to increase readership to this blog.  Why he thinks this is a winning strategy is beyond me.  I wrote  about the same kind of stuff in a weekly column called "Strictly Business" 87 times in four years in college but I got more attention the one time I wrote