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Warren Buffett’s investment acolyte was famous for his quips
...“After ‘investment banker’, ‘independent director of a Delaware public company’ is the safest job in M&A,” Leo Strine, former chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, liked to quip....
...Shanks’s quip spoke to a dramatic turn of fortunes at Netflix as its once-raging subscriber growth reverses and its stock price tumbles....
...It did not take long for minute-by-minute quips on the decline in Baidu’s share price to dominate the feed....
...Harris still makes for an affable screen presence, even if his signature boyish charm has given way to a fatigued look that prompts a quip here about needing an eyelift....
...The star is Ryan Gosling, offering a pulpy American spin on Bond, less given to quips than soulful Zen silences. “Quite the conversationalist,” notes another character....
...“I’m hoping that we’re the overnight success of 60 years of planning and testing,” quips vice-chair Rob Lovelace (RWL), a grandson of the founder. “We know we need to grow....
...Another quips that their non-disclosure agreement was so watertight, “I think I signed over rights to my firstborn”. Investors have sided with employees who feel Apple can be too restrictive....
...Upon hearing about yet another bonkers happening in markets today, it’s almost become a cliché to quip “you don’t see that in a bear market”....
...“Almost like we’re a family,” quips Roman. Strong, who plays Kendall, has quoted a phrase attributed to Carl Jung: “Where love is absent, power fills the vacuum.” But there is love in Succession....
...It bought cloud collaboration company Quip in 2016. Three years later, Salesforce acquired Tableau Software, which allows users to create graphics and charts....
...Other posters quip: “What a coup, in the nicest sense of course!”; “I am sure Her Majesty The Queen has a strong view on IFRS 9 & 17”; “And did you help her with her tax return?”...
...Bret Taylor, one of the founders of Google Maps, joined Salesforce after the acquisition of his own cloud collaboration company, Quip, and has gone on to become its chief product officer....
...And as Lex points out, Salesforce has utilised M&A to broaden its services before — snapping up cloud collaboration company Quip in 2016 and graphics software provider Tableau last year....
...Alan Grant to quip “Mr....
...UBS, the Swiss bank, has done little better in handling the fallout from an originally harmless and inoffensive quip by a London-based economist in its wealth management arm....
...As one rival hedge fund manager quips: “Just because Louis Armstrong could play the trumpet doesn’t mean he would be good at the cello.”...
...“I buy expensive suits — they just look cheap on me,” is one of his famous quips, and he is not wrong. A little stooped, he takes careful, shuffling steps, but his face is pink and flush with health....
...As an old quip insists, being paranoid does not mean someone is not out to get you. Lex recommends the FT’s Due Diligence newsletter, a curated briefing on the world of mergers and acquisitions....
...Some venture capitalists even quip that “SoftBank has replaced the IPO”....
...portal set up by estate agents to compete directly against Zoopla and Rightmove, raised only £30m ahead of its float on February 9, rather than the £50m that had been suggested – causing the analysts to quip...
...But this week, he delivered a quip that crossed a line, costing him his role on the board of Uber and creating an embarrassing distraction for the ride-hailing group....
...Related link: TPG co-founder David Bonderman: Uber exit after sexist quip — FT.com...
Ride hailing group faces uphill battle in rebooting corporate culture
...“They’ll take him out in a coffin,” quips one rival banker....
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