Let's be honest: the implementation of the United and Continental merger has been rocky for customers and employees.
You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.
At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
Once parties [businesses] merge, the eggs are very difficult to unscramble.
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 out and don't increase shareholder value.
But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.
