John Chancellor Quotes

Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

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

It [a merger] will eliminate the two firms' vigorous competition against each other.

There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own T-Mobile is to increase its exclusivity by owning more spectrum.

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

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

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link.

The creation of a United States of Europe is a necessity if one considers the economic and technical situation.

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Bolthouse is a great strategic fit with Campbell.

Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.

M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company.

If you drive a nation to adopt procedures which run counter to its instincts, you weaken and may destroy the motive force of its action... I am speaking of the frequent suggestion that the United Kingdom should join a federation on the continent of Europe. This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do...For Britain's story and her interests lie far beyond the continent of Europe. Our thoughts move across the seas to the many communities in which our people play their part, in every corner of the world. These are our family ties. That is our life: without it we should be no more than some millions of people living in an island off the coast of Europe, in which nobody wants to take any particular interest.

Federalism is a guideline, not a pornographic word, you can speak it out loud...

We have direct elections for the European Parliament. We have the [European] Commission that is independent from the member states. Of course we all belong to a country, but we are independent from our governments.

[Europe needs] the efficiency and … simplicity of a single state.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

This is ah historic moment from which there can be no turning back.

Early consolidation of hospitals was for efficiency to reduce costs. However in local market's consolidations have become monopolies and have increased costs.

there are times when we need to step in to make sure that competition works the way it should. By doing that, we help the market to work fairly, because competition gives consumers the power to demand a fair deal. It means that companies know that if they cannot offer good prices or the service that's expected, well, the customers will go somewhere else.

To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.