Investors

What can be learn from the successful Asian economies having established entire industries in a very short
time, now increasingly threatening putatively eternal industrial strongholds round here?

Very simply:

1. Scientists and engineers strive for excellent products, economists and lawyers for maximum earnings. Company management is committed to the – in the long run – more sustainable path.
2. A long-term strategy is more important than short-term maximisation of earnings.
3. Investments into competencies and product developments within the own country are not seen as a matter of honor, but as means to secure own prosperity in the long term.

These – in itself rather trivial – observations were until quite recently a majority opinion also here in Europe
and have been instrumental to create the prosperity, which we take for granted today. For inexplicable
reasons, though, such view seems to have become a minority opinion.

If you also happen to belong to this traditionalist minority, we would be most pleased to get to know you as
a potential co-investor.

Yours sincerely, MARATHON