Alex Berenson Quotes

Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.

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

You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.

You can't be in a certain business and not sell to Amazon or not sell to Wal-Mart. You have to reckon with them, because even though there are other buyers, they're the only buyers that matter.

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

I love big business!

Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. … It's cheap insurance, since failing to do basic research guarantees that the next major advance will be owned by someone else.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

In business, what do we do? We compete.

M&A at Microsoft is a team sport for the senior leadership group. They're all involved in it, and we all play different roles. My role is the first centralized business development role at Microsoft.

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.