Quotes About Acquisition

Mayflower Systems regularly bought and destroyed small companies, mostly to crush progress. And maybe also simply to frighten the universe and increase world sadness?

The spillover effects of a takeover were also hard to anticipate.

What changed Dimon's mind about acquiring Bear?

La guerre est antérieure au commerce ; car la guerre et le commerce ne sont que deux moyens différents d'atteindre le même but : celui de posséder ce que l'on désire.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If you empty your purse into your head, no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.

Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were made.

I tend to hoard, and hate to shop unless it's a blow out sale, or a sample sale.

STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.

Hardly a week goes by that I don't get opportunities to buy a hotel.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

I like to save my money for buying houses.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.

I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.

Well, rich people need stuff to buy, and socks are probably as good as anything.

After acquiring Texas, Polk deliberately started a war with Mexico because, as he later told the historian George Bancroft, we had to acquire California. Thanks to Polk, we did.

They make a religion of being greedy.