The 2017 Industry Focus Awards -- Part 3
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Notable quotes and M&A take the stage as the next two categories up for grabs. Find out who went home with a prestigious IF Award in hand.
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| 0:18.7 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.0 | This is the Thursday, December 28th show, which is episode number three in our four-part 2017 Industry Focus Awards Show. |
| 0:33.2 | If you didn't listen to the episodes released yesterday and Tuesday, |
| 0:36.1 | please go back and do that before continuing on with this one. |
| 0:39.2 | Next award we would like to present is Quote of the Year. I know we have Vince and Dylan pitching |
| 0:44.5 | Jents who would like to go first? I'll hop in here I am kind of straddling |
| 0:49.7 | tech and see g with this quote and I had to double check to make sure that it was in 2017. |
| 0:54.5 | It was right around the end of 2016 beginning of 2017. |
| 0:57.3 | My quote is, I am one of the Kings of Mean on Twitter. And the person who said that quote is T-Mobile, CEO, John Leger. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay. |
| 1:08.0 | And the reason, I obviously don't condone cyberbullying in any form, but I think that this comment really |
| 1:14.8 | embodies Leger's attitude and why he has been such a force of nature in the |
| 1:20.3 | telecom space over the last couple years. |
| 1:22.8 | You look back over the last two years, T-Mobile has doubled the S&P's return, posting 60% |
| 1:27.5 | gains, and it's really been because they've been incredibly aggressive with their promotions |
| 1:31.8 | and all of the public posturing that we've seen from John Lejeer. |
| 1:34.7 | If you follow his Twitter account, he routinely calls out all these other carriers, throws a lot of shots. |
| 1:41.0 | He is not someone that you want to be in business against. He's |
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