Quotes About Acquisition

All on this side [of] the Mississippi must be ours, including both Floridas," he had already argued to McHenry in early 1798.

John labored tirelessly to win control of Pioneer Oil Works and, instead of snuffing it out, favored its discreet absorption by Standard Oil.

Schwab sounded out Carnegie on his willingness to sell his steel company to the trust.

the Puritans had produced a religion that validated worldly activity, with "the making of money by acquisition as the ultimate purpose" of life.

Rockefeller embarked on a buying binge such as the industry had never seen.

learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience—to commit to memory—to come to know or be aware of. Obviously

borrow them with no intention of returning them. But, Benjamin says, "Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

we are all seeking fulfillment while living at the mercy of changing experience. Whatever we acquire in life gets dispersed. Our bodies age. Our relationships fall away. Even the most intense pleasures last only a few moments. And every morning, we are chased out of bed by our thoughts.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

To earn more, you must learn more.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

Two years! exclaimed Dantes; do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time? Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Ultimately, though, what was painfully lacking in childhood cannot be made good by repression and the fulfillment of substitute gratifications. Even when the acquisition of power fuels the illusion, allowing it to swell to staggering proportions, the number of victims will always be too small to sate the deadly, unconscious rage of the child that was prevented from living.