Merger Quotes

#1. What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#2. 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

#3. We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

Bernard Ebbers

#4. Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you

Ramana Maharshi

#5. We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

Lakshmi Mittal

#6. Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

Rajneesh

#7. I'm more than a kiss on you worst day, I'm a kiss on your best." - Dr. Jeremy Nichols, Merger Complete

Heather M. Miles

#8. Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

Lloyd Cutler

#9. They were blind to a cold fact of evolution ... that progress stems from the clashing merger of antagonistic extremes, out of the marriage of pinnacle freaks.

Alfred Bester

#10. Our leading candidate for a theory of everything is known as M-theory. It grew from a merger of the two seemingly different approaches: 11-dimensional supergravity and 10-dimensional superstring theory. Could this be the final theory of everything?

New Scientist

#11. When you have competing companies that are engaging in the raising of prices in lock step with each other, you have to question whether or not this in coincidence or price fixing. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil and Chevron and Texaco, we have very little competition among the energy companies.

Jeanine Pirro

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

Jerry Della Femina

#13. A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

Carly Fiorina

#14. If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

H.G.Wells

#15. The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Stephen Harper

#16. The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on hold?

David Letterman

#17. The pending merger with XM will offer unprecedented choice for consumers and create tremendous value for stockholders.

Mel Karmazin

#18. 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

#19. Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

Dilip Shanghvi

#20. At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

Ted Turner

#21. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

#22. There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.

Lakshmi Mittal

#23. Most of the media ... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Carly Fiorina

#24. 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.

#25. Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Carlos Ghosn

#26. 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

#27. This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#28. Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

Bill Vaughan

#29. 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

#30. A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

Kara Swisher

#31. Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Benito Mussolini

#32. In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.

Alexei Mordashov

#33. When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

Adam Davidson

#34. 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 Rollins

#35. 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

#36. All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#37. Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

Benito Mussolini

#38. If nobody is happy, then it's an equitable merger. - Maxim of airline seniority list arbitration

Robert Gandt

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

Ivan Glasenberg

#42. 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

#43. Alexa sniffled. "Oh my God, he gave her an airport scene! Just like in the books I read and all those movies. He followed her to an airport and confessed his love before she could board the plane!"
Nick laughed. "Sweetheart, she wasn't boarding the plane."
"Close enough.

Jennifer Probst

#44. I'm not crying for the man you are," she bit out. "I'm crying for the boy who never had anyone to care.

Jennifer Probst

#45. What do you get out of it? You'd lose one of the most important aspects in this deal, the ability to veto any decision."
"I get you.

Jennifer Probst