Carly Fiorina Quotes

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

In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.

You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.

Let's be honest: the implementation of the United and Continental merger has been rocky for customers and employees.

In any merger, when you have large organisations coming together, there will be challenges in terms of culture.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

... the world's largest merger.

Once parties [businesses] merge, the eggs are very difficult to unscramble.

Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.

I know a lot of companies that have a very well defined post-acquisition process. However, many of them don't take into consideration the dynamics and personalities of the acquiree. Instead, they assume that everyone will happily be assimilated.

Avoiding the all-too-typical divisive trappings of a takeover and creating instead a shared transnational culture - this is one of the most important lessons learned from combining Fiat and Chrysler to create FCA.

I would be amazed if Oracle does not buy NetSuite.

You can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.

There is so much headache and hassle involved in starting a business or running a business.

At Travelers, we were much more opportunistic. It was very successful, but it wasn't an integrated financial services company. We had a property casualty company, a life company, a brokerage company. We were a financial conglomerate. It wasn't a unified, coordinated strategy of any sort. When it merged with Citi, that became a big issue; Citi, at that time, wasn't yet a fully integrated, coordinated company.

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

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

You are your father's daughter,' he said, the skin around his eyes tightening. 'Trent is his father's son. Apart, you are annoying. Together...you have the potential to be a problem.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

All governments require enemy governments.