Acquisition Quote by Marc Andreessen

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a…

— Kara Swisher

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical…

— Vinod Khosla

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

I know a lot of companies that have a very well defined post-acquisition process. However, many of them don't take into consideration the dynamics…

— Brad Feld

If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that…

— Bobby Kotick

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.…

— Larry Ellison

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

— Dennis Muilenburg

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

— John L. Flannery

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

— Sam Altman

In pharma, we continuously look for acquisitions... if it makes strategic sense and if there is any value.

— Ajay Piramal

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

“Acquisition opportunities tend to emerge spontaneously, the result of changes in management at a target company, the actions of a competitor, or some other…

— Harvard Business School Press