Amy Berman Jackson Quotes

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

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.

Combining their operating business will make Volkswagen and Porsche even stronger - both financially and strategically - going forward.

... the world's largest merger.

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

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.

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

Mergers generate substantial synergies.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities.

If you have six corporate centres, six treasuries, six of everything, and then if you bring it down to one of everything, obviously there are some savings.

By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

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

There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own T-Mobile is to increase its exclusivity by owning more spectrum.

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

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

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

I think a lot can be said for consolidation, but I think it should be done for the right reasons.

The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but also at the international level.

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

Facebook refuses to let Google index or display content from its site. Facebook has partnered with Bing to make its results more social. Is Facebook acting to leverage its dominance in social towards a dominance in search?