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Quotes About Takeover

Drew was the market's first major speculator to venture inside business. Instead of just buying and selling stock as a speculator, he was the first of what we today would see as takeover artists, using the stock market as a way to acquire controlling interests in businesses, then get inside them and alter their destiny.
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
thirteen months later, Costolo did take over as CEO from the then-CEO Evan Williams, a cofounder of the company.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
Great, thought Holly. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.
~ Eoin Colfer
Most of the clubs I have had, they have been in a precarious situation when I have taken over and I have had to change it, even going back to Scarborough and all that.
~ Neil Warnock
Commercialism in the Western world has got us by the scruff of the neck. It's a technological takeover, and we can't even see it happening because we're too busy enjoying it.
~ Rhys Darby
The extremists took over the primary process.
~ Arlen Specter
I made it clear when the Barclays took over the 'Telegraph' that I wanted no editorial position there. There is no way I could take a high-level editorial position at the papers. I have my work for the BBC, and that would be compromised if I did.
~ Andrew Neil
Accountability in public office is but one manifestation of this cultural inheritance, and we should not be surprised that it is the first thing to disappear when the utopians and the planners take over.
~ Roger Scruton
he would reorganize bankrupt roads and transfer control to himself.
~ Ron Chernow
Whitney brought in his friends Edwin Webster, Chandler Hovey, and Albert H. Gordon to take over the company's name and goodwill.
~ Ron Chernow
Watching the world try to defy God's authority is like watching a group of two-year olds plotting to take over the house.
~ Jimmy Evans
Evangelicals' support for Vladimir Putin, his takeover of Crimea,
~ Anne Garrels
Each time Marie-Laure relays another rumor to her father, he repeats "Germany" with a question mark after it, as if saying it for the very first time. He says the takeover of Austria is nothing to worry about. He says everyone remembers the last war, and no one is mad enough to go through that again.
~ Anthony Doerr
In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.
~ Desmond Tutu
Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did. Our
~ Margaret Atwood
Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did.
~ Margaret Atwood
Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
~ Sam Walton
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.
~ Pat Summitt
Privatization of education signifies not an abstract transfer of public to private but a takeover of the means to reshape the minds of coming generations, perhaps to blend popular education and media culture so as to better manage democracy.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
I only guarantee one thing when I take over a new club: that we play good football.
~ Quique Setien
With respect to the super-rich Saudis taking over at Newcastle, they are likely to bring success to a famous football club by throwing money at it.
~ Robbie Savage
Zealots are always ready to take over. No one ever thought it could happen here, but we were overestimating human beings. Turns out it's easy to convert more people to a cause that takes power from others, that thrives on meanness.
~ Silas House
tweeds, and nickel instead of importing them, that it could defy the World. . .and maybe, if that World was so impertinent as to defy America in turn, Buzz hinted, he might have to take it over and run it properly.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.
~ Emily Cale