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Textainer Group Holdings Limited (TGH) closed at $49,41, +44.69%. Textainer Group Holdings Limited, one of the world’s largest lessors of intermodal containers, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets. Upon completion of the transaction and the redemption of Textainer’s Series A and B cumulative redeemable perpetual preference shares, Textainer will become a privately held company. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, which was unanimously approved by the Textainer Board of Directors, Textainer common shareholders will receive $50.00 per share in cash, with the total value of the common shares equaling approximately $2.1 billion. This transaction represents an enterprise value of approximately $7.4 billion. The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 46% over Textainer’s closing share price on October 20, 2023, the last full trading day prior to the transaction announcement. The per share consideration paid to shareholders on the JSE will be in South African Rand at an exchange rate established in accordance with the merger agreement.

EngageSmart, Inc. (NYSE: ESMT, $22.60, +11.88%), a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Vista Equity Partners , a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $4.0 billion.

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Memes stock GameStop Corp. (GME) closed at $13.44, 0.00% as the shorts drew level during their ongoing daily battle today. 

Shares of AMC, the largest movie exhibition company in the United States, the largest in Europe and the largest throughout the world with approximately 950 theaters and 10,500 screens across the globe, closed today at $9.16, +.88%.  AMC will announce their Q3 results on November 8 after the close.

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1. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
2. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
3. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
4. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
5. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” – John Burroughs
6. “Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” – Christopher Columbus
7. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
8. “The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” – William James
9. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
10. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas A. Edison
11. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel
12. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
13. “Let your mind alone, and see what happens.” – Virgil Thomson
14. “I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.” – Stephen Hawking
15. “There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.” – Frank Lloyd Wright 
16. “To begin, begin.” – William Wordsworth
17. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
18. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi
19. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
20. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
21. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
22. “Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
23. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
24. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” – Aristotle
25. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
27. “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
28. “Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar
29. To see things in the seed, that is genius.” – Lao Tzu
30. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” – Michel de Montaigne
31. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
32. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
33. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” – John Paul Jones
35. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” –  Eleanor Roosevelt
36. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
37. “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden
38. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
39. “We boil at different degrees.” – Clint Eastwood
40. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
41. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian
42. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
43. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt
44. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
45. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
46. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” – Dr. Seuss
47. “We live in a rainbow of chaos.” – Paul Cezanne
48. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
49. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
50. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” – Josh Billings
51. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
52. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
53. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
54. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”– Plato
55. “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
56. “Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” – William Shakespeare
57. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
59. “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville
60. “Childhood is a short season” – Helen Hayes
61. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
62. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” – Eric Hoffer
63. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
64. “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” – Louis D. Brandeis
65. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
66. “Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” – Sophocles
67. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
68. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
69. “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” – Johannes Brahms
70. “Either move or be moved.” – Ezra Pound
71. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
72. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
73. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” – Harry S Truman
74. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” – Alexander the Great
75. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” – Francis Bacon“
76. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi
77. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclit
78. “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” – Lydia M. Child
79. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S Truman
80. “If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.” – John Galsworthy
81. “Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.” – Arnold Bennett
82. “There is always risk involved. You can’t be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.” – Cristina Kirchner
83. “I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.” – Confucius
84. “He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.” – Elbert Hubbard
85. “Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” – George Halas
86. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir
87. “There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” – Charles Dickens
88. “Perfection is the child of time.” – Joseph Hall
89. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
90. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
91. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” – Thomas Jefferson
92. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl
93. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
94. “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” – Booth Tarkington
95. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
96. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
97. “The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” – Alfred Whitney Griswold
98. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling
99. “The more things change, the more they are the same.” – Alphonse Karr
100. “Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.” – Herodotus
101. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
102. “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” – Woodrow Wilson
103. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
104. “You exist only in what you do.” – Federico Fellini
105. “Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” – Bobby Knight
106. “The true art of memory is the art of attention.” – Samuel Johnson
107. The secret of happiness is something to do.” – John Burroughs
108. “A will finds a way.” – Orison Swett Marden
109. “To live is to think.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
110. “The sea hath fish for every man.” – William Camden
111. “What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” – Henry David Thoreau
112. “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” – Rose Kennedy
113. “No one can figure out your worth but you.” – Pearl Bailey
114. “Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.” – Nelson Mandela
115. “When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination.” – Ellen Key
116. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” – Voltaire
117. “Time passes irrevocably.” – Virgil
118. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
119. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell
120. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu
121. “You begin with the possibilities of the material.” – Robert Rauschenberg
122. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
123. “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
124. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
125. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” – James Stephens
126. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston
127. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
128. “Every failure is a step to success.” – William Whewell
129. “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi
130. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
131. “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips
132. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
133. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
134. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H. G. Wells
135. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
136. “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
137. “You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.” – Flip Wilson
138. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
139. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
140. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
141. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
142. “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
143. “Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” – Elie Wiesel
144. “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
145. “Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” – Washington Irving
146. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle
147. “If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.” – Rick Warren
148. “Dream in a pragmatic way.” – Aldous Huxley
149. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miro
150. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” – Corrie Ten Boom
151. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
152. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
153. “I think about my work every minute of the day.” – Jeff Koons
154. “I restore myself when I’m alone.” –  Marilyn Monroe
155. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden
156. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
157. “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
158. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
159. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
160. “A good beginning makes a good end.” – Louis L’Amour
161. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
162. “One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” – Thomas Fuller
163. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
164. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
165. “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller
166. “The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” – Richard L. Evans
167. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
168. “Real riches are the riches possessed inside.” – B. C. Forbes
169. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Marcus Aurelius
170. “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” – Rene Descartes
171. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
172. “It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.” – Henry James”It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.” – Will Rogers
173. “Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” – Elvis Duran
174. “Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
175. “Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?” – T. S. Eliot
176. “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” – Spike Milligan
177. “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de la Bruyere
178. “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” – Theodore Roosevelt
179. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
180. “I can, therefore I am.” – Simone Weil
181. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – George Washington Carver
182. “Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.” – Charles de Gaulle
183. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
184. “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
185. “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – George Eliot
186. The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” – William James
187. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
188. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
189. “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” – Edgar Allan Poe
190. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel
191. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
192. “The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” – Finley Peter Dunne
193. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
194. “Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
195. “To begin, begin.” – William Wordsworth
196. “You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
197. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke
198. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
199. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells
200. “Won’t be long before we view gasoline cars the same way we view steam engines today.” – Elon Musk
201. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller
202. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
203. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
204. “Good questions outrank easy answers.” – Paul Samuelson
205. “Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” – Plato
206. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
207. “All money is a matter of belief.” – Adam Smith
208. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” – Epictetus
209. “Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.” – Ben Bernanke
210. “I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney
211. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
212. “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
213. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
214. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
215. “Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.” – Walter Scott
216. “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead
217. “When one must, one can.” – Charlotte Whitton
218. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
219. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” – Winston Churchill
220. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian
221. “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” – Francis of Assisi
222. “With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
223. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
224. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
225. “Hope is but the dream of those who wake.” – Matthew Prior
226. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul
227. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius
228. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw
229. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
230. “History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
231. “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden
232. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
233. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
234. “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
235. “The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” – Francesco Guicciardini
236. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” – Plato
237. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” – Earl Wilson
238. “Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.” – James Thurber
239. “If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.” – Hal Borland
240. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
241. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu
242. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
243. “Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.” – Elon Musk
244. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake
245. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
246. “Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty
247. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
248. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles
249. “The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.” – Carl von Clausewitz
250. “There are no shortcuts in evolution.” – Louis D. Brandeis
251. “I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.” – Leni Riefenstahl
252. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
253. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
254. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
255. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton
256. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
257. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
258. “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus
259. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
260. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
261. “Anything simple always interests me.” – David Hockney
262. “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
263. “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
264. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” – Aldous Huxley
265. “View health as an investment, not an expense.” – John Quelch