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How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions. -- Mario Gabelli
Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. -- James Surowiecki
I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward. -- Jochen Zeitz
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.' -- Alex Berenson
The key to making acquisitions is being ready because you really never know when the right big one is going to come along. -- James McNerney
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. -- Susan George
Fox Interactive Media's acquisitions of Newroo and kSolo demonstrate our commitment to empowering users with interesting tools that they can use to further enhance their online experience and online identity. -- Ross Levinsohn
Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out. -- Ross Levinsohn
When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. -- Robert Toombs
We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions. -- Adi Godrej
We continue to look at accretive and synergistic acquisitions both in the domestic as well as international markets. Our emphasis, thus, will be on strategic acquisitions, and we will not be doing it just for the sake of making our name bigger. -- Adi Godrej
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but acquisitions by one company or another. Dell is the outlier. Dell built its own culture. They automated themselves to be the most efficient manufacturer. -- Eric Schmidt
We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services. -- John B. Larson
Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never. -- Sanjay Kumar
I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company. -- Sam Yagan
I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business. -- Dilip Shanghvi
We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size. -- David Milne
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean. -- James Fenimore Cooper
We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. -- Steve Jobs
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. -- Samuel Johnson
Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval. -- Wayne Dyer
What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?" -- Sarra Manning
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give. -- William Gilmore Simms
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. -- Thomas Paine
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. -- Sigourney Weaver
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. -- Michel de Montaigne
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it. -- John Wooden
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. -- Charles Darwin
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia. -- Jerry Coleman
Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes. -- Seo Do-young
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. -- Milarepa
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry. -- Samuel Johnson
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions. -- Sandra Cisneros
I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger. -- Hillary Clinton
Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value. -- Akio Morita
I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale. -- Larry Ellison
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science? -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web. -- Peter Morville
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. -- Ray Dalio
In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin. -- Larry Ellison
I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize. -- Thomas Chalmers
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures. -- Gerald Brenan
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege. -- Samuel Johnson
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own. -- William James

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