Quotes About Acquisition

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world's smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.

Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot!

What are you going to get when you trade your freedom away? Check to see what your proud new possessions will be worth.

Patience is a byproduct of growth - we can bide our time when it is the time of our growth. There is no patience in acquisition or in the pursuit of power and fame. Nothing is so impatient as the pursuit of a substitute for growth.

Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

The attitude inherent in consumerism is that of swallowing the whole world. The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle.

Ellery had packed fairly thoroughly, but Jackson was as incapable as the next person of getting through Walmart without buying something he hadn't planned on and had no use for.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

The thing all mental representations have in common is that they make it possible to

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Cela istorija je samo jedan ?ovek koji pokušava da nešto oduzme drugom ?oveku, a obi?no to jedno ne pripada nijednom od njih.

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.

There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

The reason we don't give a date by which we will acquire something is because we don't want to create pressure on ourselves to buy something.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.