Quotes About Acquisition

In April 1803, President Jefferson reached the zenith of his popularity with the Louisiana Purchase. For a mere pittance of fifteen million dollars, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, doubling American territory

the smart money never bets on the DoD having gotten exactly what it paid for. The

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Gideon isn't for sale mister. Ah, yes. Like the Louisana Purchase, or Manhattan. I see. Should I have come with a purse full of beads and a wagon of diseased blankets? ... Can't you smell the history in the air? No doubt their grandfathers rushed across these prairies in their wagons, knocking down the natives, smashing in their brains in their zeal to stake for their claim. That pioneer spirit. My, what a land! I have learned so much from you

You will see an immediate increase in every aspect of business acquisition (meetings, follow-up, suggestions, and so forth), and every aspect of your life once you form the habit of naturally offering options. Why

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

The more one gets the more one wants

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.

Know that everything's for sale for one who knows to offer a right price.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its way of thinking is incompatible with the round river. Ecological harmony is a nonmarket value that takes a collective will to achieve.

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Beano, buying the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Calgary

Virtually from its declaration of independence from Britain in 1776, the United States was ambitious to acquire more territory.

Collections do not leave the collector unaffected. The art of collecting results in a certain turn of mind.

The brain is more like a muscle and less like a storage area. If you really want to be a writer, you should want to write a lot. If you want to write a lot, then you need to be in training. You are preparing to run marathons, not emptying a suitcase. Learning new languages, acquiring new vocabulary, keeping yourself in various forms of constant logocentric discipline is one of the best things you can do. And language acquisition is nothing if not logocentric discipline.

People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes.

Im on a shoppin spree to get whatever is in store.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.