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"Controlling interest" Quotes from Famous Books

... Union Iron Mills were formed by their consolidation in 1867. I did not believe that Mr. Miller's reluctance to associate again with his former partners, Phipps and Kloman, could not be overcome, because they would not control the Union Works. Mr. Miller, my brother, and I would hold the controlling interest. But Mr. Miller proved obdurate and begged me to buy his interest, which I reluctantly did after all efforts had failed to induce him to let bygones be bygones. He was Irish, and the Irish blood when aroused is uncontrollable. Mr. Miller has since regretted (to me) his refusal of ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie

... "Isn't the controlling interest in a transcontinental line of railroad vocation enough? To say nothing of coal, copper and iron mines, a steel mill or two and a fleet ...

— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs

... approached the quarries with an interested eye. Among his many irons in the fire he had acquired part ownership in another quarry to the westward, like this bordering the towpath of the canal. Bowers held the controlling interest, though neither his name nor Shelby's figured prominently in its management. They called it the Eureka ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... chronicler has written it), not Washington the American but Washington the English subject, major in the colonial militia, envoy of an English governor of Virginia, Dinwiddie, who, having acquired a controlling interest in the Ohio Company, became especially active in planning to seat a hundred families on that transmontane estate of a half-million acres and so to win title ...

— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley

... agreed Sam with a smile. "The letters patent, however, should give my kid brother and myself, without much capital, controlling interest ...

— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester