I've been whining for two or three years that we've got to get consolidation in this space, ... In the bubble you had way too many companies go public. All these companies turned out to be features and not companies. Now part of the driver is a realization by the big companies that this is a way to capture growth.
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Related This consolidation really started in the mid-1990s but picked up speed and is still continuing. In t... GOPAL AHLUWALIA Quite frankly, you've had a lot of companies that came public too early. In markets where we've had ... CAREN TAYLOR When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, thr... DAVID SZE In the midst of the mania there were a whole lot of companies that went public that were just pure p... ARNIE BERMAN Japan has one of the largest concentrations of multinational companies in the world. It's an extraor... C. MICHAEL ARMSTRONG [These days, it may be easier to raise startup money than it was during the boom. No, it doesn't see... GEOFFREY MOORE The consolidation has always been part of the operating landscape and it always will be. But these o... JAMES DOUGHERTY UNSCOM had a practice of not revealing names of companies of suppliers of equipment to Iraq because ... HANS BLIX Companies like Texas Instruments, companies like Cisco Systems in enterprise networking. Leaders in ... CODY ACREE Investors will be looking at companies with earnings and growth potential. They're not going to wait... EDWARD TENTHOFF You've had a narrow group of tech companies that have been delivering positive and accelerating grow... ARNIE BERMAN There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes'... WANG JIANLIN This training seminar is a great way to provide hands on training for our customers. We hope to reac... ERIC GREGORY If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no... BOB KRUGER Over the last three or four years, companies have been able to hire whomever. Now the market is star... KATHRYN ULLRICH These are companies that operate in the shadows. Some of these companies are trying to come forward ... BEAU BRENDLER This is important because many US companies only do offshore business with companies that have this ... AILTON NASCIMENTO Deals were a key driver in Asia-Pacific, where companies formed partnerships to position themselves ... DONN SZARO If you look at it that way it is quite a big burden, particularly on entrepreneurial companies. In a... ERIC CHEN This is an emerging growth space that's been emerging for a long time. There are companies that are ... JACK ROBINSON This is an emerging growth space that's been emerging for a long time, ... There are companies that ... JACK ROBINSON We like the educational sector. We like select software companies. We like publishing. We like compa... JEFF HERSHEY SR The companies founded two or three years ago have been struggling with the assumption that follow-on... GEOFFREY MOORE The reality is they're not paying out enough anyway. There are all these companies that are sitting ... JAMES MONTIER Many companies that purchased Demand Solutions in the last 12 months had a large, ineffective system... MIKE CAMPBELL It is the first time that these companies have admitted to major quantitative reductions in antibiot... MARGARET MELLON There was a lot of pessimism going into the quarter for these companies. These companies hit their n... ANDREW GALLIGAN In times of economic stability, the big companies are always going to win. In times of volatility an... BOB MACDONALD All these companies are signing new deals. They're all doing the right things. If you said two years... AYDIN TUNCER Many of the companies are small mom and pop operators with a one or two vessels. We won't be looking... JOHN WOBENSMITH The process of the transition has gone very well for both companies. We've had intensive engineering... DAVID MOODY The fact that two leading companies in the industry may take part in mergers is sending a positive m... FILIPPO DE LUCA Companies today are poised to capture the market share being conceded by their competitors. The wors... BERNIE BOURDEAU I have to assume that dividends is a big conversation in boardrooms right now. I don't get the sense... JAMES DENNEY This is the final turn in the long road of the Tenneco transformation from a debt-ridden conglomerat... DANA MEAD The metals sector is red-hot. The economy is growing, companies are working at full capacity and the... ANDRE CAMINADA This deal is going to prompt further consolidation. The continuing volatility in petroleum prices ma... GEORGE GASPAR There are so many companies that are public now that I can't see everybody making it. I don't think ... DALTON CHANDLER He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either ... GEORGE CLINTON If a bunch of these companies get bought out, it may be too much for the market to handle. CONRAD SMITH On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively lo... JEFF BEZOS These are all audiences that companies want to reach (by joining the parade), and reach in a festive... BILL FLINN At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c... CARLOS SLIM The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, Ge... ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD We have a level of growth now in the world that is low enough for the Fed not to raise interest rate... EDWIN SLAGHEKKE In the next three years, there is going to be a gigantic transition online. It's still going to be a... SCOTT APPLEBY This is absolutely unbelievable. I cannot believe that this is true because it is that unbelievable ... BILL FLETCHER This is absolutely unbelievable. I cannot believe that this is true because it is that unbelievable ... BILL FLETCHER This is absolutely unbelievable. I cannot believe that this is true because it is that unbelievable ... BILL FLETCHER In our view, Solvency II will be a major driver for companies to review their business models. Ultim... HANS WRIGHT To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or f... DOUGLAS LEONE Everybody is realizing that big move to get bigger 5 or 6 years ago, is really stifling a lot of com... GREGG WARREN What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of compan... ERIC SHEPCARO Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting ... CHRIS CORNELL This is all just a transparent effort by the tobacco companies, insurance companies, the Chamber of ... HARVEY PEYTON I think putting your money in the big oil companies right now is the excellent way to play it. They ... ED MARAN Our two companies have had a successful working relationship for years. We currently provide air dat... JAN MATHIESEN Companies will seek to compete on a global scale and that means merging companies. So the market has... JOS DUARTE Drug companies have done a poor job managing public relations and they know this. In many cases, the... DAVID MOSKOWITZ In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defi... BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out ... JOSE FERREIRA Some teams assemble machines built by corporations but our kids do their own. That means we go up ag... CHUCK GOSDZINSKI We have quite a good policy for big companies but we have the same rules for small companies. If you... MAUD OLOFSSON This isn't a pleasant place for either of these companies to be. CHARLES DISANZA Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went do... JACK BRUCE Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very f... HA-JOON CHANG There are companies that tried to do that in the past and got a lot of bad public exposure. BRENT HIEGGELKE These are the two biggest companies in the cholesterol segment, companies with combined annual reven... JEFFREY KRAWS Tech companies are frustrated with equity analysts and their inability to get beyond the quarterly c... DEBORAH WILLIAMS What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell... FELICIA DAY We're not trying to get companies out of their responsibility. It's the way of fairness - you pay wh... BARNEY BISHOP These companies suffer from a lack of distribution. The challenge is who is going to introduce these... ERIC SCHMITT There aren't too many companies that would allow me to work like this. GENE VAN GREVENHOF The reason companies want to go public now is that (luxury good stocks) are at record high valuation... CLAIRE KENT On the commercial side, clearly all of the three major types of companies -- traditional pharmaceuti... HAMILTON MOSES This deal is an indication that Mr. Sorrell has a drive to be the absolute top advertising and marke... JAMES DOUGHERTY The trick for media companies is how to embrace multiple content in a profitable way. ED SHEDD I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substan... PETER MANCUSO We think cellular companies in Brazil will go through consolidation. DAN BARKER In all new markets that have high growth potential, there are new companies that start. Of course at... TON VAN KAMPEN The cost savings when you put two of these companies together may be substantial. But it ultimately ... JAMES ELLMAN This is all about a transition, going from here to there. Now the strategy is to partner; so you hav... JACK STAFF The market is in a rotational phase toward the more stable growth companies -- and that would includ... DONALD GHER The Ceres Principles have been advocated now for 10 years and at least half of the Fortune 500 compa... BOB MASSIE Japanese companies are way ahead of American companies in recognizing this fact. You need to have so... CLIVE JONES It is mystifying why these companies would not want to take part after all this is an opportunity to... LYNNE WEIL It's a huge contribution by them (Davidson Companies). The only way we got him here was to be able t... CAROLYN VALACICH When we look back in three years, there's going to be a higher likelihood that those companies that ... FRANK AQUILA Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be fr... VINOD KHOSLA ISYS has been an integral part of the knowledge management industry for a number of years. The compa... HUGH MCKELLAR Some of the larger companies are acquiring smaller companies just to get the people -- because it is... ED YOURDON We used to all be small local companies. We were always a brand locally and now we're a brand nation... JOEL RASSMAN When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with co... CLAIRE DENIS Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in resp... ERIC LEFKOFSKY What's really happening is a restructuring. There are companies spread out all over the valley that ... DOUG HENTON Companies want projects that run three to four months, not three to four years. GUY TWEEDALE What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insure... GERRY SPENCE Many investors are fearful that oracle will acquire this that and the other thing. But my contention... BERT HOCHFELD
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