Emmanuel Macron

A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.

French Politician

Simon Sinek

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

English Author

Bernard Ebbers

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Canadian Businessman

Michael Morhaime

If we were to choose to do something on a console, the merger with Activision is going to be extremely helpful.

American Businessman

Elon Musk

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.

South African Businessman

Blake Farenthold

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

American Politician

Jerry Della Femina

Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

Kara Swisher

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

American Journalist

John L. Flannery

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

Angela Braly

American Businesswoman

Merger usually implies growth, creating a larger and more influential combined entity.

Size and Scale

Mergers can involve equals, but often one entity is dominant and may dictate terms.

Not Always Equal

After a merger, the combined entity may have a new name and brand to reflect its new identity.

New Identity

Business mergers can significantly impact the market, affecting competition and consumer choices.

Market Impact

Mergers can cause uncertainty for employees regarding job security and company culture.

Employee Uncertainty

In law, a merger of contracts often means the end of the original terms and conditions.

Legal Finality

Legal mergers almost always have specific terms outlined in a detailed legal document.

Specific Terms

Astronomical mergers are massive events with significant energy release, visible across vast distances.

Cosmic Events

Mergers in astronomy, like galaxy mergers, are rare and take place over millions of years.

Rare Phenomenon

 which means that there's a merger of the physical, cyber, and biological worlds. It means that because of massive interconnectivity and the availability of artificial intelligence and robotics, many of the jobs that we know and are used to right now won't exist in the future. So the challenge is a lot greater, in many ways,

Success stories from...

 You can plug in and experience what it's like to be someone else. But most importantly, it'll be a tremendous expansion of human intelligence through this direct merger with our technology, which in some sense we're doing already. We routinely do intellectual feats that would be impossible without our technology.

The accelerating power...

 That's the world people actually want. In truth, we do live in a world that science can understand. Unfortunately, the science is probably closer to being climatology in that in many cases, very, very small changes can have disproportionately huge effects, and equally, vast areas of activity, enormous mergers,

Rory Sutherland: Sweat...

 Both mission and vision are important corporate drivers, but they play a different role in purpose. And mission and vision will change with changes in leadership, corporate contacts, competitive landscape, merger and acquisition. They are important, but they are also temporal. In my experience,

The Power of Purpose in...

 which we had meant to distribute to all staff worldwide. They just seemed unnecessary and cute in the end. I didn't know back then that our decision marked the beginning of the end -- that these two organizations would never become one. And sure enough, the merger eventually failed.

4 ways to build a human...

 before eventually collapsing cataclysmically into a black hole. While many stars exist as binary systems, only a small percentage of those end up as neutron-star binaries, where two neutron stars circle each other in a waltz doomed to end as a merger.

The life cycle of a...

 and he came one day back to campus. And he told me the following He said that for more than two weeks, he was working on a PowerPoint presentation. He was working in a big bank, and this was in preparation for a merger and acquisition.

What makes us feel good...

 his boss and his boss wrote him back and said nice presentation but the merger is canceled and the guy was deeply depressed now at the moment when he was working he was actually quite happy every night he was enjoying his work he

 What is that? Well, robotics is this merger of AI and the physical world, the mechanics, the embodiment of a machine. And so you need to sort of understand both the mechanics and the AI to make a physical, smart system.

The Future of Artificial...

 environment, energy, litigation, mergers, all of these are complicated problems that are predictable, that this sort of technology can be applied to. And the reason that being able to predict those things is important,