Ted Waitt Quotes

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.

Yahoo would benefit from going private or becoming part of a larger corporation.

If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

The apparent strategy of Pfizer is to take over AstraZeneca, dismember it, and put the different parts of it into its three new divisions, with the ultimate aim of selling off one or more.

I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.

NBC News will help define Comcast.

... the world's largest merger.

When people heard id Software's being acquired, everybody just assumed it would be Activision or EA. Why would we even consider going with a publisher that wasn't of that same size?

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.

I would be amazed if Oracle does not buy NetSuite.

I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often.

By the time my attempt to acquire WCW fell apart and Time Warner decided they didn't want anything remotely associated with wrestling near their networks, once that happened and really cut the cord, it was in my rear view mirror and didn't care or think about it too much.

People from Tony Stone refused to let PhotoDisc become part of the industry trade association. Then we bought PhotoDisc. There was complete shock.

Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.

Had Fusient been successful in buying WCW, ultimately there would have been no one on that side of the equation, including me, that would have had the commitment to the business that Vince McMahon has had throughout the years.

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

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

You know, Rupert Murdoch I've said is like an Italian when it comes to negotiations.

If there is one thing worse for a manager than having an interfering owner it is uncertainty over the ownership.

You can't put your name, recognition, your money in a company without having share in the control.

WWE didn't want RVD to get over when I was there. They tried so much to... to... not get me... to... to... keep me from that. They didn't understand why the fans liked me, because I don't fit the cookie cutter formula, because I am a non-conformist.

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.