Quotes About Acquisition

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

People always say congratulations. When you're a successful bidder it means you're willing to spend more money than anyone else. I'm not sure if that's congratulations or condolences.

Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

They ask - "How much money is too much money?"The answer always is - "A little more!

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait

modern individuals rarely see the need to adopt a philosophy of life. They instead tend to spend their days working hard to be able to afford the latest consumer gadget, in the resolute belief that if only they buy enough stuff, they will have a life that is both meaningful and maximally fulfilling.

The profound realization, thanks to the practice of Stoicism, that acquiring the things that those in my social circle typically crave and work hard to afford will, in the long run, make zero difference in how happy I am and will in no way contribute to my having a good life.

HOW MUCH WEALTH should we acquire? According to Seneca, our financial goal should be to acquire "an amount that does not descend to poverty, and yet is not far removed from poverty." We should, he says, learn to restrain luxury, cultivate frugality, and "view poverty with unprejudiced eyes.

mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Dramatic conquests often lead to startling serendipities: the most momentous Muslim acquisition at Talas was not territory or silk, but a commodity at once prosaic and precious. Among the Chinese prisoners taken at Talas were papermakers, who soon spread their wondrous craft into the Islamic world, and then to Europe, changing forever human culture and the course of history.

What investment banking is to the ambitious and acquisitive today, the pepper trade was to the Romans—the most direct route to great riches.

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

How many things we acquire only because others bought them and because they are in a good many homes. Many of our problems are explained by the fact that we copy the example of others: rather than following reason, we are led astray by convention. If only a few people did something, we wouldn't imitate them. But when the majority starts to act a certain way, we follow along, too, as if something should be more honorable just because it's more frequent.11

Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and immediately assess them only in terms of what he could get for them in the market? Surely, he can only have been a thief.

The source of status is no longer the ability to make things but simply the ability to purchase them.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.