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To: MCsweet who wrote (37019)	3/18/2010 5:08:32 PM
From: Madharry	Respond to of 78774

I now believe invariably CEO are always confident about their company but if the own 50% of it like you say at least they are eating their own cooking. i could never distinguish between the ones whose companies were about to go over a cliff and the ones that were doing ok from what they were saying most of the time. Thats why I no longer try to have private conversations with management. To me the best evidence of confidence are open market purchases. There are very few managers around that give a rats ass about customers, shareholders, bondholders except in terms of how it affects their own self interest. but at least when a ceo has most of his wealth tied into the company his interests are somewhat alligned with shareholders.