The 3 Keys To Profitable Growth The Prelude
b'Do you remember back to the 80\\u2019s and the corporate raiders? The Michael Douglas portrayal of Gordon Gekko, made famous in the 1988 Oliver Stone movie \\u201cWall Street\\u201d, was symbolic of the real life \\u201cBarbarians at the Gate\\u201d, describing people like Henry Kravitz, Carl Icahn, Michael Milken, T. Boone Pickens, etc. They used a lot of other people\\u2019s money (hence the \\u201cleveraged\\u201d in the term LBO) to acquire companies \\u2013 many of which were mismanaged, bloated, vulnerable, undervalued or all of the above. Milken, in particular, created mountains of capital available for investment that allowed for new frontiers of success and innovation.'