Mergers Quotations

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

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

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

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

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

More (conditions) would clearly have been better, ... This is better than approving these mergers without any conditions.

I worked here for 28 years and this is a shame. I've seen lots of mergers and theaters come and go. But I wanted to take one last look before they destroy it.

People will always be a little bit concerned that higher interest rates will go too far and threaten company earnings, which will then mean mergers and acquisitions don't make a great deal of sense.

Obviously, under this approach, the scope for mergers would be far greater in metropolitan areas than regional areas, where there are many markets that would already be close to, or at, this threshold,

Leadership that's reliant on mergers and acquisitions is dangerous leadership.

When you do a bunch of mergers you make compromises.

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Given his experience with mergers there is a lot of speculation that he will go in there and do a big deal, ... but we're a bit skeptical of that.

I am very concerned about the oligopoly that has developed. The mergers could lead to a significant amount of price stagnation for business customers.

Friendly mergers can really derive leverage and value for the shareholders and for the employees. Both companies will work together to plan an integration strategy, and the value of a merger really only comes in the post-merger integration.

Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software,

If China lets multinationals' malicious mergers and acquisitions go ahead freely, China can only act as labor in the global supply chain.

Given the number of major changes consumers have experienced over the past couple of years, the gap between customer expectations and actual service experience tends to widen as uncertainty from mergers greatly influences consumer perceptions. Case in point is the impact major market dynamics plays in future switching intent. Between 2004 and 2005, there has been a 5 percent increase in the intent to switch wireless carriers in the next 12 months -- a reverse from the past two years, where future switching intent remained stable.

(China) hasn't created a very good environment for mergers and acquisitions.

China realizes that the world is watching and it must play fair in the implementation of the Anti-monopoly Law, ... Given the long history of state-managed enterprises and protectionism, it still is going to take time for China to fully accept cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.

Having spent several years on Wall Street specializing in mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Kim brings with him extensive trading experience.

What we do when we investigate mergers is that sometimes we might feel the need to get more information on a given product or geographical market and we have to get that from the companies.

We are finding that mergers do not appear to play the dominant role in star formation, because we see normal-looking, undisturbed galaxies that are undergoing large amounts of star formation.

We're in the middle of a wave of mergers and acquisitions. It's one of the essential motors for stocks this year.

We can expect to see fewer deals and higher prices, just as we've seen with the mergers of cable companies.

There is a huge amount of consolidation in the industry, and that consolidation is smaller companies all becoming larger through mergers or acquisitions or any kind of arrangement. So what's really going on is there's a huge pressure to lower their costs.

We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

I see it as a lose-lose situation. Integration problems with airline mergers are legendary.

I think that in the long-term care market all companies are fair game for mergers at this point. All of these companies are trying to get their cost structures down to cope with the changes taking place in Medicare.

Launching the new partner program less than one year after one of the largest software mergers in history is a testament to Symantec's commitment to its partners and our unswerving focus on delivering both the programs and infrastructure to help ensure our mutual success in the market. Our partners are a valuable part of our company, and they are key to delivering value to customers. This first phase of the new partner program will provide partners with a simple, complete framework for doing business with Symantec.

Our action today demonstrates that we're not going to give carte blanche approval to mergers in the defense industry. While industry downsizing can be desirable, or even necessary, we will do what it takes to preserve effective competition.

Our vision of the future is a complete deregulation of everything from routes and airline access rights, all the way through to changing ownership and control regulations which would allow mergers and acquisitions,

I think we are seeing a second round of layoffs if you will in some large corporations. We're also seeing a lot of mergers and acquisitions. And the other thing that we're seeing is: corporations putting their capital where they can get the best return, and often that is outside the U.S. for low wage jobs... inside the U.S. for high wage jobs.

It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.

The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.

I worry that these acquisitions and these mergers can only spell higher costs for the consumer and in the long run problems for the employees of these companies.

With the election clearing the deck, I think you'll see more momentum. If you're going to have a 10 percent increase in corporate profits next year, I don't see why you couldn't be up 20 percent (in mergers and acquisitions).

Mergers and acquisitions and start-ups are, in actuality, a form of market expansion. Therefore, growing the business in new, high-potential markets is clearly a desired outcome of using international assignments in Europe as a key staffing strategy.

Mergers and acquisitions are a motor for stocks. This is supporting the market. The financial environment is historic for takeovers. Interest rates are low, and companies have reduced debt and built up a lot of cash.

Mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors will be a market highlight this year. Banks, retailers and steel-making stocks will be favorites.

Mergers and acquisitions have been very strong and produced a lot of ancillary financing.

Mergers are a nightmare. I'm sure everybody has thought about it but half of the reason that airlines like US Airways find themselves in this position is that previous mergers have not gone entirely well.

Mergers are looking to help us hold our ground today.

Mergers in the US oil and gas industry over the past 25 years have helped the industry become more efficient in the production, refining and marketing of energy supplies. These mergers have created benefits for the American consumer in the form of affordable, reliable and higher-quality fuels.

Mergers of equal partners are rare and difficult to carry out.

Mergers that are announced in January typically get started the prior September.

We got off to a good start off of the mergers and acquisitions news, but I think people just looked over their shoulder and saw rates continuing to back up and crude drift a little bit higher, and it's given them a little bit of pause.

Member states cannot intervene on competition grounds on mergers of European dimension.

We are beginning to see some signs of improvement in mergers and acquisitions and an increased number of transactions,

We believe there could be greater impetus for potential mergers among the second-tier players in 2006.

Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

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.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

What we have pointed out is that we often hear promises of greater resources devoted to R&D (as a result of a merger), but there is absolutely no proof that in the mergers over the last three to five years that that has occurred.

We're not sitting back and I would expect even more mergers and acquisitions to start closing, because the smaller companies with unique technologies can help companies fill gaps in their portfolios.

What I found was that they were not about to send productive associates in mergers and acquisitions to far-off places, but instead work them day-in and day-out, regardless of where I wanted to go,

The fact that two leading companies in the industry may take part in mergers is sending a positive message. This is a market that can be sustained by M&A.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

We said, you know, there should be some public interest test met, if mergers would go forward. You know, we've been at this for I think eight years now, and as the Prime Minister said himself, the next government must deal with this issue. So we support a process.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

We've closed the gap in terms of production capacity and profitability. To embark on another phase of consolidation, you have to find new synergies and not run into any regulatory problems, ... We've done the necessary mergers to bring shareholder value.

We have to get these interest rate increases behind us and the Fed did hold off this last time, but I think there's still a possibility of another rate increase later in the year. And that's weighing on investor's minds. Earnings have slowed down a little bit. The interest rate increases to date have had an effect and we're seeing some earnings disappointments at some companies and that has investors concerned. But on the other hand, we have the mergers and acquisitions that tend to buoy up the prices in whatever sectors affected from one day to the next and that will keep investors interested in stocks certainly.

We're beginning to see greater levels of mergers as the economy improves and as executives that have been reticent get more comfortable with their own business.

Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on the mergers and acquisition, buy-back or dividend fronts, mixed with good news out of energy or the Fed, would be a catalyst to bring the big institutions back into stock market.

Washington pundits expect such a bill to include the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, which could lead to a wave of mergers in the utility sector.

The time of big mergers is over, for the moment, but we can see more strategic alliances of the Renault and Nissan kind.

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.

The trend in mergers and acquisitions has been much stronger than we anticipated, and I can't see any factor that will turn it down. This is very positive for stocks.

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

While the market environment remains difficult, we are beginning to see positive signs for our industry, as demonstrated by the improvement in the equity markets, as well as a rise in announced mergers and acquisitions transactions,

The theme of mergers and acquisitions is going to remain a real motor for stocks. No industry is sheltered from it. Today is another demonstration of that.

The Swedish mergers and acquisition practice is quite different from the UK. They believe in putting the offer into the public domain before recommending it.

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

These mergers are by far the most powerful events occurring in the universe, with each one generating more energy than all of the stars in the universe combined. Now we have realistic simulations to guide gravitational wave detectors coming online.

These mergers are messy. They take a long time to do. That's why you don't want to own that name during a deal.

The question that remains out there is, 'is this merger going to work or is it just going to follow the pattern of all the other (airline industry) mergers and be something quite negative.

When you have mergers and acquisitions that improve the quality of your product, the ability to grow and bring better efficiency, it's good for all.

When the economy is growing faster and businesses want to replenish inventories and make the kind of capital expenditures, mergers and acquisitions that outstrip their internal financing, then they will turn to banks.

These are the rock stars of the finance world. There have been some extraordinary deals, and mergers and acquisitions activity.

The rise in mergers and acquisitions has meant more demand for IT workers to help merge the parties' systems, for example.

With respect to the committee's specific question -- whether mergers and acquisitions in our industry have contributed to higher prices at the pump -- the answer is no.

There is so much cash in the corporate coffers out there, that I think you can probably anticipate there will be more mergers happening.

Rubber-stamping these mergers is an embarrassing milestone in this nation because it puts an end to any real hope of head-to-head telephone competition.

Companies are trying to take some action in order to reduce their expenses, so you'll likely see some further mergers and acquisitions.

Companies talk all the time, even about mergers that never happen, and word about most of those discussions never gets out. Just because this one leaked out doesn't indicate the earnestness of the discussion.

Banking has been the driving force in mergers and acquisitions this year. With over $1 trillion in all U.S. deals, about $250 billion have been in the banking sector.

Bank mergers are probably not high on the list of priorities of the new government.

Bank mergers take away competitors and create bigger banks. The studies that we have done show that bigger banks have bigger fees.

A lack of mergers has allowed them to stay focused on strategy, Their alliances have been a success.

A major wild card that has yet to really surface is legislation that allows U.S. corporations to repatriate foreign earnings at a 5.25 percent tax rate instead of 35 percent. To be eligible the money has to be repatriated in 2005 and reinvested by Dec. 31, 2007. While the money cannot be used for many corporate activities, it can be used for mergers and acquisition.