Mergers Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We're seeing the convergence of a big, corporate party right now. A sort of bipartisan merger under the figure of Hillary Clinton.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

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.

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.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"

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