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Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Acquisitions Adept Available Course Growth Innovation Like Limits Long Older Oracle Proved Rivals Sap Tool

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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

Topics: About Acquisitions Domestic Growth High International Like Objective Operations Our Started Through Time Turnover Well Will Would

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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

Topics: Acquisitions Bigger Both Continue Doing Domestic Emphasis International Just Look Making Markets Name Our Sake Strategic Thus Well Will

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

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Acquisitions Big Buy Competitors Does Mergers Much Smaller So-Called Though Wal-Mart Will

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Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Acquisitions Area Build Company Compress Development Experience Get Goal Help Out People Product Roles Senior Team Time Ultimately Use Who

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When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.

~Brian Acton

Topics: Acquisitions Failed Learned Lot Saw Some Succeeded Think Worked Yahoo I Think I Have Learned

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Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.

~Carol Loomis

Topics: Acquisitions Base Bigger Earn Equity Even Get Idea Inclination Instead Keep Leads Never Often Option Pay Prices Rich Shrinking Some Them Think

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Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Accurate Acquired Acquisitions Arms Before Decades Dozen Editor First House Houses Hundreds Job Maybe Might More Mostly Nearly Novel Per Projects Publishing Random Reject Rejection Spent Title Two Various While Workman Wrote Year

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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

Topics: Acquisitions Any Commitment Consider Form Future However Looking May Must Open Opportunities Present Present Time Quite Say Size Something Think Time I Think

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Our first use of cash is invested organically, secondly returning values our shareholders - roughly 100 percent free cash flow. And then thirdly, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships that complement our organic strategy. We are going to continue down that path.

~Dennis Muilenburg

Topics: Acquisitions Cash Complement Continue Down First Flow Free Going Invested Mergers Organic Organically Our Partnerships Path Percent Returning Roughly Secondly Shareholders Strategy Then Use Values

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