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Quotes About Merger

If we were to choose to do something on a console, the merger with Activision is going to be extremely helpful.
~ Michael Morhaime
Modern ecumenism rightly began in mission, but then lapsed into a merger mentality, then defensive bureaucracy, and finally into unrepresentative forms of extreme politicization.
~ Thomas C. Oden
The merger of religion and politics is a classical Islamic ideal; in the recent era, they have again been brought together. The utopian aspirations of the Islamic movements evoke the Muslim ideal of the caliphate, but in many respects they are an altogether novel adaptation of Islamic concepts to modern conditions.
~ Ira M. Lapidus
I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another label. Then I got picked up by Sony publishing. So I was writing professionally from 16 to 18. Then I started making my own records.
~ Lights
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
~ Valerie June
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.
~ Mario Monti
the term "merger" should be eliminated from the business vocabulary. There is no such thing. There are only acquisitions.
~ Verne Harnish
Every time we look back on this moment when we signed this agreement which severed Singapore from Malaysia, it will be a moment of anguish. For me it is a moment of anguish because all my life … you see, the whole of my adult life … I have believed in Malaysia, merger and the unity of these two territories. You know, it's a people, connected by geography, economics and ties of kinship … Would you mind if we stop for a while?
~ Kuan Yew Lee
Big business don't go broke any more. The minute it looks bad for them, they combine with something else and issue more stock.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.
~ Bernard Ebbers
The beastly and beautiful merged at one point, and it is that borderline I would like to fix, and I feel I fail to do so utterly.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the beastly and beautiful merged at one point, and it is that borderline I would like to fix
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
~ Charles Dickens
All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
I]magine that a 25-year-old first-year MBA student is considering merging his future economic interests with those of a 25-year-old day laborer. The MBA student, a non-earner, would find that a "share-for-share" merger of his equity interest in himself with that of the day laborer would enhance his near-term earnings (in a big way!). But what could be sillier for the student than a deal of this kind?
~ Warren Buffett
The New Testament is clear: there is to be no merger of church and state until Christ returns and the kingdoms of this world become 'the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ.' As [Francis] Schaeffer writes, we must not 'confuse the kingdom of God with our country... or wrap Christianity in our national flag.
~ Charles W. Colson
AMAZONGOOGLEFACE ANNOUNCES INTENT TO ACQUIRE DISNEYAPPLESOFT The deal would result in a combined company worth approximately $97.3 quadrillion. "This will be good for consumers," said Jeff Bezos, CEO of AmazonGoogleFace, speaking from the company's offices on an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt.
~ Charles Yu
This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Charter's merger sales pitch is pretty straightforward: it argues that it has always been too small to bully Internet companies, TV makers, and its own customers, so it has'un-cable' practices they hope to extend.
~ Marvin Ammori
An important sign of the collapse of the rule of law is the rise of a paramilitary and its merger with government power.
~ Timothy Snyder
As history has shown, what happens after the deal determines the ultimate success. It's one thing to make an acquisition, and another to integrate it well.
~ Patricia Crisafulli
Today there is a place called Egypt, but the Egyptian people are not masters there; long since they have been broken by conquest, and merged in language and marriage with their Arab conquerors; their cities know only the authority of Moslems and Englishmen, and the feet of weary pilgrims who travel thousands of miles to find that the Pyramids are merely heaps of stones.
~ Will Durant
But the powerful and respected party right, particularly Stalin, went so far in the direction of moderation as to support a merger of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - the proposal of Irakli Tsereteli, the outstanding Menshevik intellect and orator, recently returned from Siberian exile and now in charge of the Petrograd Soviet.
~ China Mieville
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
~ Margaret Heffernan