Quotes About Acquisition

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

I don't really collect guitars.

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.

I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want.

Would I buy this today, at this price?" If not, you may not want to own it any longer.

Leo was a fifty-something Athenian intellectual who had tried to convince Barry that the Greek gods were better, or at least more curious and interesting, than the main Judeo-Christian one, whom he saw as a collector of sorts, never happy with his last acquisition, always too busy to maintain the pieces he already owned.

The earliest people to report porn-related problems in online forums were typically computer programmers and information-technology specialists. They had acquired high-speed internet porn ahead of the pack

earn what you can since everything's for sale

De qué sirve tener posesiones si un hombre carece de conocimientos?

If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

I buy thousands of books a year.

In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.

I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential loss of market share in the mobile space led them to the Android acquisition.

A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.