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Suresh, I'll treat your question with the respect it deserves.

I find that if you treat others with courtesy and respect you get the same in return. I also believe you can learn much from a person by the tone of their voice and the emotions they reveal when you talk to them. Much the same way you can know a lot about people, and their motives, by the words they use and tone in which they use them on HotCopper.

I am an investor not a trader. Earlier this year when UNI was in the $1.50 - $1.70 range, I asked my broker his advice. He said, "A prudent man would take some money off the table. But you know the company well, so...."

I didn't sell. Who was prudent?

Not me!

But I learned a valuable lesson. And that's what this game is all about. Making money, sure, but learning all the time, through good times and bad. Am I bitter that I could have made some good money and come back in now? No. How can I be? I don't have a crystal ball and I didn't know it would play out like this, and I certainly can't change it.

I have no association, real or implied, with Unilife. When I invest in a company I do as much research as possible. There is a huge amount of information available about any given company and the markets they operate in. Research also includes speaking to the executive/CEO when and where I can. With a few rare exceptions, TZL being one, I have always found the people I deal with to be honest, professional and very cognisant of their duties as directors and CEOs. I have also found it interesting to learn which CEOs will give shareholders their time and which won't. Those who do, within the contraints that they can, I find I can trust.

In this respect I have hundreds of thousands of reasons to place my trust in Alan Shortall, and not one to believe that trust is misplaced.

Just my opinion.