Big Quotes by Alex Berenson

12 Big quotes by Alex Berenson

When Alex Berenson turns his eye to the idea of 'Big', he cuts straight to the core of ambition, scale, and impact. These twelve quotes capture his sharp take, offering a quick yet thoughtful look at how size shapes our choices and expectations.

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Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

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Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

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Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply…

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Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one…

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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to…

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Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

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Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

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Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of…

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Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely…

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John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of…

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It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy…

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On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades…

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