Sloane Crosley

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

American Writer

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

American Politician

Helen Dunmore

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

British Poet

Henry Paulson

No bank should be too big or too complex to fail, but almost any bank is too big to liquidate quickly, particularly in the midst of a crisis.

American Public Servant

Sterling Hayden

For us to support the liquidation of a simple life in a large part of the world is not a particularly attractive prospect.

George Bernard Shaw

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Irish Playwright

Barry Ritholtz

Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

American Author

Theodor W. Adorno

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

German Philosopher

Kim Jong Il

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

North Korean Leader

Michael Caputo

To pay the bills, I've liquidated my children's college fund.

Used when a company cannot meet financial obligations and must sell assets.

Financial Distress

'Liquidate' often implies selling assets before closing a company, but can also occur while still operating.

Not Just Closure

The process may be overseen by courts or legal professionals to ensure fairness.

Legal Implication

Indicates converting assets to cash often due to urgent financial needs.

Cash Needs

Suggests selling assets could be strategic, based on market conditions.

Market Timing

Implies a permanent conversion from assets to cash, without immediate plans to reinvest.

Finality

It's often used metaphorically to describe thorough defeat or removal.

Metaphorical Usage

Typically used for extreme actions, carrying a brutal or ruthless connotation.

Harsh Reality

Often associated with historical mass killings or purges, particularly political.

Historical Context

 I made a choice, I resigned as chairman of the board and I agreed to serve as a first-time CEO of this broken company. But I agreed to do it just for six months. I just wanted to avert a nasty liquidation. And then I wanted to come home and get on with my life.

James Rhee: The value of...

 that's been the motivation it's been the justification it's been the business plan of American agriculture we should call it what it is a business in liquidation a business that's quickly eroding ecological capital that makes

How I fell in love with...

 stores still remained i call it the world's slowest liquidation sale because it's taken 20 plus years to liquidate what went wrong here i think you already know sears was turning itself into a company of super chickens

Liquidate

Financial Distress

Not Just Closure

Legal Implication

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