28 Quotes by Thomas Gunderson

The price that I think you'd have to pay for St. Jude would be even more expensive than what Guidant is being bid for today.

He is an extraordinary manager and leader of St. Jude, and he is in the right job for him. You need to be independent, hard-driving and be your own person. You're small and playing the rules close to the edge. That's not the J&J way.

I think it's brilliant. The worst-case outcome for them is that they delay Johnson and force them to pay several million dollars more for Guidant, which weakens them as a competitor.

I think Jim Tobin is a great captain of the ship.

Tobin being here full time is good ? you want someone with authority on site. That will make decision-making a lot faster.

Wall Street did not have a good feeling for what's next for Boston Scientific.

We all knew the lawsuits were coming. If J&J walks away from this deal, it'll be because of money, not because they're surprised by something in these documents.

We will see more battles of the data.

Boston Scientific has always been impressive -- they've done so many acquisitions over the years. They have a SWAT team that is just at its peak -- they come in and say hey, we're going to do a deal, and boom.