Quotes About Acquisition

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

While we have been presented several opportunities to be acquired by multinational corporations, we are most excited that our collaboration with Bain Capital fulfills our commitment to remain an independent family-owned and operated company with a purpose-driven business model that puts community at our core.

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that people are culturally and philosophically aligned with the way that we approach the business.

The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.

But also, he resisted the idea that his endless work, the warmth of his family, and this identity that got him followed in stores and ejected from restaurants and movies, this way he was, for good or bad, was just another thing for a white man to acquire.

As with most other reservations, the government policy of attempting to excite pride in private ownership by doling parcels of land to individual Ojibwe flopped miserably and provided a feast of acquisition for hopeful farmers and surrounding entrepreneurs.

began buying land on a rocky hillside connected

But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different—that courage is in some sense acquired.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

books that Uncle bought in Odessa or acquired in Heidelberg, books that he discovered in Lausanne or found in Berlin or Warsaw, books he ordered from America and books the like of which exist nowhere but in the Vatican Library, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, classical and modern Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, medieval Arabic, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian, and languages and dialects I had never even heard of, like Ugaritic and Slovene, Maltese and Old Church Slavonic.

Buying is much more American than thinking.

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