Martin Winterkorn 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.

I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.

There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.

One of the interesting things about the Dell-EMC combination is that we don't have a lot of overlap.

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.

The combination of Cantor and eSpeed will earn more money and be more profitable than we ever were before September 11.

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

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

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

Our business is strong and enjoys high margins.

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

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

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.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

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.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.