Quotes About Acquisition

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

Good things soon find a purchaser.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours', isn't it?

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.

I am obsessed with good buying books

IBM acquired a great deal of modern manufacturing and sales capacity—for the wrong products.

In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself—where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.