Quotes About Consolidation

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

One Plus One Equals One.

He bound the land together, and made of seven kingdoms, one.

One King means peace.

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

Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.

Im the glue that holds everything together.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Since becoming chief minister four years ago, Baba Dhobi had sought to consolidate his cult standing by using state funds to build lavish monuments and statues to the leaders of the Dalit movement, himself included.

Water always finds its own level.

Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 - with the goal of making flying good again.

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.

Our goal is to continue to be a global consolidator of the live music business.

the term "merger" should be eliminated from the business vocabulary. There is no such thing. There are only acquisitions.

Sleep is the price we pay for learning

Big business don't go broke any more. The minute it looks bad for them, they combine with something else and issue more stock.