There are not a lot of opportunities in tech that are wholly secular plays as opposed to cyclical plays, ... This is a great company and a great stock.

If you believe this a secular story then you should ignore cyclical swings. The banks may have bad quarters every now and then but so what?

not being given a whole lot of opportunities to make plays even though I signed — quote, unquote — big bucks.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

The tribe was not all opposed to that.