Pride, and Why Dealmakers Shouldn’t Give Into It

Try Googling “quotes about pride,” and you’ll be treated to literally thousands of them—it's amazing to see how many angles there can be to a basic human trait that we all share. But, the English writer John Ruskin may have put it best in the sense that sometimes applies to mergers and acquisitions in the printing industry. “In general,” Ruskin tells us, “pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”