Sentences with phrase «buggy whip company»

As Lawrence «Larry the Liquidator» Garfield, a corporate raider, said in the play Other People's Money about a firm going under that was run well but outmoded, «I'm sure the last buggy whip company made a damn good buggy whip.»

To me, it seemed to be the ultimate value trap — a modern buggy whip company.

Not exact matches

Maybe they feel like the railroad companies when the Interstate Highway System was announced, or like buggy - whip makers watching the first car drive down the road.

With climate change upon us, there are companies to invest in for the long - term that will profit from this unyielding global condition along with those to avoid that make «a damn good buggy whip» in a doomed sector.

3) My industry studies produce a list of out of favor companies with better prospects than most — the challenge is to separate out the «buggy whip» industries, from those that are genuinely cheap.

We're not exactly talking about buggy - whip companies heading over a cliff, or new - tech / media enterprises accelerating into the stratosphere...

Market observers refer to companies involved in mature or dying industries as «buggy whip» companies.

This company is a text book example of everything that is wrong with an unreguated insurance agency and the CEO should be buggy whipped!