Quotes About Acquisition

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

the victor belongs to the spoils

Everything belongs to someone else, except the pain of not having it.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.

I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it?

A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?

If you look across a 30-year career in the company, I've executed in a wide arrange of environments. In financial services all around the world, in industrial businesses, and in the acquisition and strategy work.

I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

I use Wikipedia and eBay; I look for singles for my 1950s jukebox.

The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Calm down please, sir, if you will,' said the bobby, still retaining a firm hold upon the horse's reins. ' "Stolen" is such an ugly word. It is not technically stealing if you are a British archaeologist and you acquire items of historical significance in the savage realms and liberate them to civilisation.

This is now my go-to strategy for member retention and acquisition. Create an on-boarding product that delivers a member transformation. Then market that new member on-boarding system as a bonus that increases sales conversions on the front end.

One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Ever hear of finders keepers?

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Refiners who used Tidewater were lured away with concessionary rates on Standard Oil pipelines, and Rockefeller swiftly bought up any remaining independent refineries that might be prospective Tidewater customers.