Mergers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
-- Benito Mussolini -
The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
-- Bernard Ebbers -
Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
-- James Surowiecki -
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
-- John Naisbitt -
Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.
-- Kevin B. Rollins -
This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.
-- Mario Monti -
The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.
-- Mel Karmazin -
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.
-- Peter MacKay -
Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.
-- Reggie Watts -
Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.
-- Reginald Fessenden -
The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.
-- Barry Ritholtz -
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
-- Susan George
