Business Mergers Quotes

I would say history is a clear witness to many of the problems that have erupted when two partners from the same industry or same country have come together.

I don't think LVMH will want to significantly change the strategy of Loro Piana, and I don't think that they would have bought it otherwise.

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

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.

I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.

When you have two people challenge for the same job and you keep them both and call them co-CEOs, or the whole fiasco of a 'merger of equals'... there is no such a thing. So if there should be dreams of dual leadership, the chances of success are limited. But Bernie [Ecclestone] is still at the top of his game I have noticed.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

To put a halt to what it considered to be a rising tide of concentration in American business, Congress, with full power to do so, decided to clamp down with vigor on mergers … on the premise that mergers do tend to accelerate concentration in an industry. Many believe that this assumption of Congress is wrong, and that the disappearance of small businesses with a correlative concentration of business in the hands of a few is bound to occur whether mergers are prohibited or not. But it is not for the courts to review the policy decision of Congress…

The suggestion that we were pursuing consolidation as a replacement for reaching our financial targets by 2018 is fundamentally a bunch of hogwash.