Evidence Quote by Stephen Moore

“One study of corporate mergers and acquisitions—some of the highest-stakes decisions executives make—showed that 83% failed to create any value for shareholders.”

— Chip Heath

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work…

— Barry Ritholtz

For acquiring companies, the excitement is almost always about where they are going - that is, their strategy for gaining greater growth and productivity.…

— Punit Renjen

Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about…

— Lawrence Summers

“Peter Drucker once observed that the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that doing deals…

— James C. Collins

“The Mergers and Acquisitions Framework You might use the mergers and acquisitions framework to address cases in which one company wants to acquire or…

— Victor Cheng

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

— Tony Fadell

There have been many very successful acquirers, where they've bought up companies, and they've grown their earnings very rapidly, and the stock has appreciated…

— John Paulson

“Publicly traded companies die through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies at the same rate regardless of how well established they are or what they actually…

— Geoffrey West

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

— Henry Manne

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

— John L. Flannery

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to…

— Sanford I. Weill