Quotes About Acquisition

Greediness of getting more, deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

If Turkey procures the S-400, it will mean they will not receive the F-35. It's that simple.

The reason we didn't acquire WCW is an incoming, rotating door, new head of Turner at that time, took prime time television literally out of the deal that we had already negotiated. Once that happened, there was no way to make any sense of it. It was really just a video library and some ring mats.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

I have to have everything. I have to have iPads. I've had I think every generation of iPod. I've had all the consoles at least once; I've had some of them twice. I get them and get fed up with them and get rid of them.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

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

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

I love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

If I can't acquire an item from a public museum, I should give up the business.

It's not really about collecting the thing itself," Laroche went on. "It's about getting immersed in something, and learning about it, and having it become part of your life. It's a kind of direction." He stopped on the word "direction" and chortled. "If anybody had a plant I didn't have, I made sure to get it. It was like a heroin addiction. If I ever had money I would spend it on plants.

Kelso maintained that the acquisition of the book was an expression of her free speech. Reverend Campbell argued that his right to pray for someone's soul was an expression of his free speech. As the lawsuit advanced, Reverend Campbell's right to free speech seemed to gain the moral upper hand

within three years of its founding, OverDrive had loaned one million books, and in 2012, it had reached a hundred million checkouts. By the end of 2017, it had reached the milestone of having loaned one billion books. On an average day, seven hundred thousand books are checked out through OverDrive. The company has been so successful that, a few years ago, the Japanese conglomerate Rakuten paid $410 million to acquire it.

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.

Pero ¿destruirlo? No. (...)No destruyes lo que quieres adquirir en el futuro.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.