October 10, 2011

I Don't Even Know You!


"Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never a good idea."

Oscar Wilde
19th century Irish poet

Given a 50% divorce statistic, I'm not so sure.

And the same logic applies in business too where there are more failed mergers/acquisitions than successful ones.

2 comments :

  1. the difference in business is that the acquiring or dominate company doesn't really care about their counterparts in the other company no matter what they say before the deal is done.

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