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"I can't decide which I'd rather do- make a twenty-billion-dollar bid of turn down a twenty-billion-dollar bid."

Man to realtor: 'How much for a starter cubicle?'

'You're my best man, Pomeroy, so I've decided to sell the damn company.'

"I keep feeling we should float the company"

'They sold the company in 2001? I was wondering why things were slow.'

"It's Swamp & Swallow - they're making an offer we can't refuse!"

'If we have only fractional ownership, it's not a private jet anymore, is it?'

'Uh - oh... this looks like an unfriendly takeover!'

Money pouring in for a 'Acme Doodad Company's IPO.

"Potential buyers of the company are coming through today. Tell everyone to look sharp and put a few bowls of potpourri here and there."

'I told you I'd deal with your transfer request, Jenkins. Cut the deck!'

'I told my wife to run the house like a business. So she sold it to an American corporation.'

"To be honest, I'd be stupid not to take advantage of the market."

"I'm looking for something a little more open pan."

"I told you we should have sold last winter."

'Someday, Son, this will all be your problem.'

"The worst thing about selling 51 percent of my company is that I can't walk around like I own the place."

"I've been working remote so long I didn't know my company has been bought and sold three times."

"All this for getting out when the getting was good."

'I've put the business up for sale.'

Anheuser-Busch agrees to US$52 billion sale.

'Your call would have been important to us before we went out of business.'

Our company got swallowed up, but they spat me out.

Real Estate Life

'I was sorry to hear that you'll be leaving us next week, Higgins...I was hoping it was this week.'

'Takeover is such a harsh word, Harris, let's just say that your people are now my people.'

'Our house is being staged. Dad says we've got a good shot at getting in - if we can pass the audition.'

'You're the reason I can't charge anything for goodwill when I sell the business.'

'By the way, dear, you might like to know...my investment club now owns 51% of your company.'

'We had a leveraged buyout today, and I was the fulcrum!'

'I'm not sure we'll be able to sell your property. Since all this talk of global warming, the north pole isn't the prime location it once was.'

"I was going to quit when the going was good. But the going never got good."

Business for sale

"Don't just pin this on me. You didn't want to kill the spider either."