Quotes About Acquisition

True ownership of anything requires time.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

la predisposición para los idiomas es tan misteriosa como la de ciertas personas para las matemáticas o la música, no tiene nada que ver con la inteligencia ni el conocimiento. Es algo aparte, un don que algunos poseen y otros no.

The first was that it was almost impossible to get. The second, that, once you had it, it was almost impossible to keep. The third, that these laws applied only to each individual but not to anyone else. In other words, though money was impossible to get and impossible to keep, for everyone else it flowed in by the bucketful and stayed forever.

When you buy a company, what you're really buying are its assets. So you've got to look at those assets and ask yourself, "Why aren't they doing as well as they should be?" Fully 90% of the time, the reason is management

There's no first place or last place here. Life is not a competition. Often people use money and the acquisition of things to measure where they stand: who's got the nicer house, the fancier car, the summer home in the Hamptons. But the truth is, we can't predict how long we'll live or the state of our health as we age. The reality is, it doesn't matter where we start. It's how we finish that counts.

Some men have a great gift of making money, but they can't spend it. Others can't put two shillings together, but they have a great talent for all sorts of outlay. I begin to think that my genius is wholly in the latter line.

After all, a husband is very much like a house or a horse. You don't take your house because it's the best house in the world, but because just then you want a house. You go and see a house, and if it's very nasty you don't take it. But if you think it will suit pretty well, and if you are tired of looking about for houses, you do take it. That's the way one buys one's horses, — and one's husbands.

After all," said he, "money is a fine thing." "Very fine, when it is well come by," she answered; "that is, without detriment to the heart or soul.

acquired the knack of spreading all she knew very thin, so that it might cover a vast surface.

Common sense] is a spontaneous set of beliefs which together express a conception of the world which takes the social order as 'the way things are.' It is apparently the 'spontaneous feelings' that people have, the traditional popular conception of the world – what is unimaginatively called "instinct" although it too is in fact a primitive and elementary historical acquisition.

Occorre persuadere molta gente che anche lo studio è un mestiere, e molto faticoso, con un suo speciale tirocinio ,oltre che intellettuale,anche muscolare-nervoso: è un processo di adattamento,è un ambito acquisito con lo sforzo,la noia e anche la sofferenza

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

That doesn't last. By their first birthday, Kuhl found, babies can no longer distinguish between the sounds of every language on the planet. They can distinguish only between those to which they have been exposed in the past six months.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.

A few individuals, by extraordinary genius, or by the accidental acquisition of a good set of intellectual habits, may work without principles in the same way, or nearly the same way, in which they would have worked if they had been in possession of principles. But the bulk of mankind require either to understand the theory of what they are doing, or to have rules laid down for them by those who have understood the theory.

Du Pont had acquired only the rights to the hotel; in 1925 he bought the property from the Astors and promptly replaced some non-revenue-producing spaces with seventeen shops configured so that their entrances fronted on Fifth Avenue or Thirty-fourth Street, their back entrances on Peacock Alley.

Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

There's even a name for the people who have the most stuff. They're called hoarders. Back in the day they were just called grandmothers.