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Bragg: Taking Amtelecom Private Removed $3M–$4M in Overhead
“Yeah, and telecom, and southern Ontario, we got some real efficiencies by taking it private, and it, you know, became a branch plant, as compared with a separate head office, separate accounting, separate, I don't know how much, it wasn't that big a company, b…”
Bragg: Eastlink owns fiber connecting Ireland, Bermuda, and across North America
“If you look at our map, we have fiber from Ireland to Bermuda to the east coast, and then we have fiber going west through, through Chicago and Detroit, through Toronto and up north, and all the way to British Columbia, and a lot of this we own.”
John Bragg: Kept family name off businesses to shield his grandchildren
“I was determined that from a family point of view, and if my grand, grandson or granddaughter want to have a Just a normal job in the business or outside of the business. They don't need the burdens of the name being everywhere. So I was quite determined to ke…”
Bragg: Holding Berkshire Hathaway targeting a 10% to 12% return
“We're buying Buffett for a 10 or 11 or 12% return. We're not looking for 20 or 25%. We just like to buy good, solid investments and, ah, and let them grow.”
Bragg: Low-cost producers will survive tough times across any industry
“I'm a big believer in being a low cost producer. Doesn't matter what you're doing. There's no excuse to waste money. You're low cost. You're going to stay in business in the tough times.”
John Bragg: Eastlink held most debt due to consistent cable cash flows
“The real debt load was in cable where the cash flow was quite consistent.”
Bragg: Eastlink originally bused taped US TV broadcasts across the border
“We built a tower down at Mount Shamcook on the U.S. Border, and we received the Bangor channels there, taped them, put them on the bus, and of course Halifax got them first. By the time we got them in Amherst, they were two weeks old”