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ANTONY MAK It's one of the first acquisitions where we bought a competitor.
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VAGIT ALEKPEROV We've had some quality acquisitions. I think, in time, everybody's going to mesh together.
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BILL BAYLESS I remember when I was around 12 I learned about the three A's for the first time: asparagus, articho...
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KLAUS KLEINFELD There will be no large acquisitions in the next two years.
KLAUS ZUMWINKEL We are open to more such acquisitions in future.
MAYANK JALAN There's always been a lot of mix and matching going on in the retail industry. With all the consolid...
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Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON But (the acquisitions) represent a strong maintenance revenue stream.
JOSH GREENBAUM By terminating the acquisition, we now have available the $600 million for other strategic investmen...
LEONARD RIGGIO Again it's all driven by mergers and acquisitions activity, and telecoms are in the limelight.
SIMON JEFFRIES They are going to be benefiting from the consolidation of acquisitions.
MICHAEL SONES We are denying any involvement in any property acquisitions for such a purpose.
BYRON MILLER With several swift acquisitions in a short span it will have to start to deliver results, which mean...
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JEFFREY LOGSDON I would not want to comment on what possible acquisitions we are looking at. We are very internation...
JAMES PATE Completing the offer is just the first step in making this acquisition a success. The key lies in th...
PETER LUIT SAP is the clear market leader in the U.S. Acquisitions won't be able to change that.
LEO APOTHEKER It makes sense because both Merck and Schering are too small to compete. Sentiment is good for merge...
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ERIC STEEGE This could be an interesting product in the context of funding acquisitions ... to maintain ratings.
JAMES ESPOSITO The Internet is starting to change the media landscape, making what previously looked like straight-...
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by exp...
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ERIC UPIN
KELLY JONES The noise and customer confusion following all the acquisitions is quieting down.
EDWARD MOORE
But Cisco has not grown through acquisitions, ... They've grown despite their acquisitions. The prim... PAUL JOHNSON There is reasonable optimism still in investors' minds. We are still seeing good support coming thro...
ALEX SCOTT The thing about the acquisitions is it shows companies are looking and seeing value in the marketpla...
ARNIE OWEN They were the first really big, complicated acquisitions Microsoft has ever done. It took us longer ...
JAMES UTZSCHNEIDER The investors that wanted to get in, buy something and flip it quick, they don't exist anymore.
DAVE MINTON Mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors will be a market highlight this year. Banks, retailers...
ZHANG LAN In the absence of acquisitions we could spend our annual free cash flow of around 450 million pounds...
GARETH DAVIS In the past week or so, the number of corporate buyers lurking around for acquisitions has really ju...
GRANT BABYAK The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the ...
GUNTER THIELEN I don't think people have really modeled in the generics acquisitions yet. The generics acquisition ...
LUIS CORREIA These H shares are attractive because their profit outlook has turned around in the past year. Next ...
ANTONY MAK It's one of the first acquisitions where we bought a competitor.
ANDY OLDFIELD We think that we are close to making considerable acquisitions in the European and American markets.
VAGIT ALEKPEROV We've had some quality acquisitions. I think, in time, everybody's going to mesh together.
ERIK COLE 2005 was a milestone year for us, as we completed our first full year as a public company. Our growt...
BILL BAYLESS I remember when I was around 12 I learned about the three A's for the first time: asparagus, articho...
DAVID REILEY I have seen and been involved in acquisitions where that big question is left unanswered.
DARIN BRUMBY The first thing I thought was that Jack [Nicklaus] really would have wanted to get his hands on it. ...
CHET WILLIAMS I think we?re very frustrated because we haven?t been able to get our hands around the problem to de...
LOUISE DIX Those things don't exist now. I think right now they're much more transparent in their accounting fo...
CYNTHIA BROWN It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.
EDWARD MENASHY Miramax started out as a film distributor and they were really smart in their acquisitions in the ea...
BOB BERNEY They have been appallingly managed, particularly regarding acquisitions. Shareholders will be asked ...
JAMIE SANDISON
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou... SUSAN GEORGE just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON
Pain has creative power,Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL The main thing for us is about player acquisitions so it involves unrestricted free agency and trade...
WILL LEWIS This is a year of unusually low S&P index turnover due to the low number of mergers and acquisitions...
DAVID BLITZER
We continue to look at accretive and synergistic acquisitions both in the domestic as well as intern... ADI GODREJ
I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you hav... DILIP SHANGHVI
I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Journalists used to believe they have this halo around them. It doesn't exist anymore.
CHRIS CRAMER The world is now being dominated by few Giant organizations that influence and dectate our consuming...
ASHRAF HAGGAG
Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base... CAROL LOOMIS With this additional funding in place, we hope to conclude some of the acquisitions that are current...
DON MARDAK In the first half of the year, investors really needed to be somewhat divorced from reality. It was ...
ERIC WIEGAND I didn't think he was working that hard defensively in the first half, to be honest with you. At hal...
BRIAN HILL When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG Investors tend to get nervous around DOJ issues. Absolutely, it will help alleviate their fears.
DENISE GARCIA
Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the co... ROSS LEVINSOHN I don't think it really changes anything. What will happen is there'll be a heated-up competition on...
IRV KIPNES
I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic g... LARRY ELLISON We have very aggressive expansion plans for acquisitions in Russia and abroad.
ALEXANDER UTOCHKIN
Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER
Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harr... J.K. ROWLING
Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as... J.K. ROWLING The cost of mergers and acquisitions is too much.
DONG JUNFENG And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Spr...
MEL TILLIS HP was struggling with acquisitions [like taking a big swallow with the merger with Compaq, another ...
CHRIS FOSTER
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growin... T.H. WHITE I think it was the quality, the fact that these things had been around for so many years, that's wha...
BARBARA WENTZIEN We will face 2006 with a strengthened team without changing its true nature. I believe there will no...
ROBERTO AMADIO The first quarter demonstrates that Siemens' business portfolio delivers strong growth on the combin...
KLAUS KLEINFELD There will be no large acquisitions in the next two years.
KLAUS ZUMWINKEL We are open to more such acquisitions in future.
MAYANK JALAN There's always been a lot of mix and matching going on in the retail industry. With all the consolid...
ROBERT FORT It was a first-pitch fastball, and I was able to get around on it.
DILLON GUILLORY
It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have ... GEORGE HAMILTON So far I think we've got after it this year. I think we've been flying around the football. I think ...
JOSH LAZARO
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisiti... ELIZABETH GILBERT We will grow organically and, in some circumstances, through acquisitions.
AXEL SCHAFMEISTER
I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which... TED SARANDOS For the stock to stabilize, investors have to get their hands on the seriousness of the regulatory i...
DAVID ANTHONY They've both worked extremely hard. I've been around them since they were in seventh grade and it wa...
LESLI PRIEBE
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON But (the acquisitions) represent a strong maintenance revenue stream.
JOSH GREENBAUM By terminating the acquisition, we now have available the $600 million for other strategic investmen...
LEONARD RIGGIO Again it's all driven by mergers and acquisitions activity, and telecoms are in the limelight.
SIMON JEFFRIES They are going to be benefiting from the consolidation of acquisitions.
MICHAEL SONES We are denying any involvement in any property acquisitions for such a purpose.
BYRON MILLER With several swift acquisitions in a short span it will have to start to deliver results, which mean...
ANDREW HOLLAND
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON That's why the bulk of the new products the big guys have been introducing lately are the result of ...
JIM FLACH The biggest criticism against Disney is that it hasn't used strategic acquisitions to leverage franc...
JEFFREY LOGSDON I would not want to comment on what possible acquisitions we are looking at. We are very internation...
JAMES PATE Completing the offer is just the first step in making this acquisition a success. The key lies in th...
PETER LUIT SAP is the clear market leader in the U.S. Acquisitions won't be able to change that.
LEO APOTHEKER It makes sense because both Merck and Schering are too small to compete. Sentiment is good for merge...
ALEXANDER GROSCHKE
We have no large acquisitions in mind right now. LARRY ELLISON Last year I think it was tough on the girls and me because I was a first year coach. The first time ...
ERIC STEEGE This could be an interesting product in the context of funding acquisitions ... to maintain ratings.
JAMES ESPOSITO The Internet is starting to change the media landscape, making what previously looked like straight-...
GREG FRASER It's taken a little more to get my arm and legs in shape. But I've been around the game so long it h...
JASON BURTON It rained so hard I was standing on 2nd base jumping around puddles get in it.
A.J. PIERZYNSKI
Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I think the publicly traded companies will be very careful making acquisitions in the future and con...
BILL BURNS
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by exp... GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC BUFFON
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by exp... GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Our expected strong first-quarter demonstrates that the significant investments we made in recent ye...
BARRY PERRY I just kind of wanted to relax my senior year and not practice hard and have fun. But once that firs...
DREW VELASCO For us, what it has created is a buzz around town. I think it's a part of having 4,000 people here. ...
BONNIE HENRICKSON We've been doing acquisitions all along. Now we can do bigger deals in excess of certain dollar amou...
GARY SHEFFER In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they ...
MAARTEN SCHAFER Four years ago when these freshmen came in, the team was 1-19 the year before. I kept telling them, ...
DAVE SHOWALTER I was around his hands, going for the ball trying to get my nose in there. I don't play dirty, but I...
TYLER AZZARELLI Given the sensitive regulatory position that Microsoft will still be facing, the company will not ma...
ERIC UPIN
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