Ted Waitt Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

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

You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.

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.

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

Mergers generate substantial synergies.

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.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Our goals were and are to be sure that we set up DC Entertainment to be more integrated and more cooperative within DC as well as in Warner Bros.

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.

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

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

Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

Consolidation means less equipment, less networks, and less jobs.

After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company.

Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.

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

One of the tangible benefits of the merger is that we are not vying with each other for work. We can now focus on organizing work in one place. There is no SAG, no AFTRA, only SAG-AFTRA.

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

2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.