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Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.

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Philip Arthur Fisher
Age: 96 †
Born: 1907
Born: September 8
Died: 2004
Died: April 11
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