Aneel Bhusri Quotes

Bolthouse is a great strategic fit with Campbell.

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

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.

Adecco and Penna have a long history of working together, and Penna represents an excellent strategic fit for Adecco in U.K. HR services, expanding the breadth and depth of services Adecco is able to offer to its clients. The acquisition of Penna also offers meaningful synergy potential for Adecco in the U.K.

You can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.

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

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

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

We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.

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.

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.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

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

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

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.

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.

I hope to buy brands and businesses globally.

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.

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.