Takeover Quotes

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'

The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

I'm going to take over the world. Everyone watch out, you're in big trouble.

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

I'm taking over boxing.

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.

In the last 18 months, we received much interest from parties to invest in the club or buy the club. I rejected all the options to buy the club because I did not want to give up.

I would be lying if I didn't admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I'm not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

It's a new day with a new president who isn't trying to get along and intermingle. He's taking over. These are dire times, and there are decisions that need to be made in order to change the direction this country is going and rapidly.

When I get the opportunity to get the ball, I've got to destroy my opponent.

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

The important thing is to know when the hour is right to be seized.

If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.