Quotes About Mergers

#1. Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

James Surowiecki

#2. Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

HENRY MANNE

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

Tony Fadell

#4. We get talent and scale from mergers.

Angela Braly

#5. It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

Sigourney Weaver

#6. 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

#7. Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Roger Altman

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

Jim Rogers

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

Lewis Black

#10. Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut - spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.

Joel Greenblatt

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

Arundhati Bhattacharya

#12. Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

Simon Sinek

#13. How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.

Mario Gabelli

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

John Naisbitt

#15. Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

Anita Roddick

#16. 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

Geoffrey West

#17. The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

Reed Hundt

#18. 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.

Peter DeFazio

#19. Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.

Seo Do-young

#20. 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.35

James C. Collins

#21. 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.

Jeremy Stoppelman

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

David Ogilvy

#25. Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

Alex Berenson

#26. Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

James Gleick

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

Bill Vaughan

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Mel Karmazin