"Within the conglomerate structure, it has very healthy, attractive businesses," he said.

Primarily, however, "we look for attractive businesses in the equity market that can grow capital at a good rate."

But I don't think they will be interested in property and casualty companies, because it isn't a very attractive business.

But viewed as a whole, I think a very, very attractive business will be produced.

"This is actually a very attractive business," he said.

In any case, delivery of Internet service over cable systems is likely to remain an attractive business.

"There are not a lot of attractive businesses in the mix," he said.

We had started off as a telephone company and then added a lot of other attractive businesses.

With the decline of mining, agriculture became a more stable and attractive business in the 1860s.

There has to be an underlying business attractive to equity investors.