Quotes About Acquisition

Stealers, keepers.

We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.

End of the day, don't like me or whatever. Just go back dreaming about your dream car or house while I go buy them.

When you lose everything, then you have something. It's exactly the opposite because everything that you have, it's not really yours. What is yours, you don't need to earn. It's yours by right.

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.

YouTube is, at the end of the day, a search engine... that's why Google bought it.

I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

We are thrilled that Jon Batiste is joining 'The Late Show' family of products. For my money, nobody plays like Jon Batiste. And you can trust me, because it is my money.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Why not worship money? At least its rewards are obvious and immediate. But no, that was simplistic. Letherii worship was more subtle, its ethics bound to those traits and habits that well served the acquisition of wealth. Diligence, discipline, hard work, optimism, the personalization of glory. And the corresponding evils: sloth, despair and the anonymity of failure.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else's property.

Mine now," he said aloud, then laughed softly. "All mine.