Quotes About Mergers

You can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger.

For families with larger amounts of wealth, marriages in the ancient world were the equivalent of today's business mergers or investment partnerships.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Size is the enemy of excellence in investment banking, particularly when you are trying to put together two different cultures.

I'm into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends." I shrug. "Do you like it?" she asks, unfazed. "Um … It depends. Why?" I take a bite of sorbet. "Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don't really like it," she says.

Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

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.

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

Publicly traded companies die through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies at the same rate regardless of how well established they are or what they actually do. The

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.

The corporate environment, with its downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions, has actually become even more of a hothouse for psychopaths.

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

We are living in an age of "Mergers" and "Combines." When your business is not doing good you combine with something and sell more stock.

No os habéis preocupado jamás por saber lo que será de vosotros cuando los mismos consorcios se fusionen en el trust de los trusts, en una organización a un tiempo social, económica y política.

Peter Drucker once observed that the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that doing deals is a much more exciting way to spend your day than doing actual work.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

Using Hollerith's tabulators, the 1890 census was completed in one year rather than eight. It was the first major use of electrical circuits to process information, and the company that Hollerith founded became in 1924, after a series of mergers and acquisitions, the International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM.