When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.
We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.
The strategic plan to transform Valeant smartly focuses on rebuilding the company's core franchises in ophthalmology, dermatology, and gastroenterology while simultaneously using the proceeds from the sale of non-core assets and operating cash flow to de-lever the company.
Selling the family silver.
Describing privatization and the selling of profitable state owned enterprises: Earl of Stockton
I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.
But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.
The left must shelve its centralist megalomania and drop the obsessive conviction that the State can effectively control the whole economy … The left must stand up for consumer rights, free investment decisions, the free disposal of assets, and a decentralized decision making process
The government has to be flexible in Air India sale price, structure, and employee management plan.
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.