Quotes About Acquisition

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

I collect motorcycles and art.

The coast populations now began to apply themselves more closely to the acquisition of wealth, and their life became more settled; some even began to build themselves walls on the strength of their newly acquired riches. For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

appears that they want what the Russians have, the new oil and gold discoveries.

Every time a person goes to the mall, she loses a little piece of her soul

Cuba must be ours," declared Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis. He also wanted the Yucatán peninsula, so that the Gulf of Mexico would become "a basin of water belonging to the United States." His fellow Mississippian, Senator Albert Brown, coveted Central America. "I want these countries for the spread of slavery," he said. "I would spread the blessings of slavery, like the religion of our Divine Master, to the uttermost ends of the earth.

the inscription at its base put San Jacinto on a par with Waterloo and other exalted fights. The defeat of Santa Anna, the self-styled 'Napoleon of the West, led to the annexation of Texas, war with Mexico, and the acquisition of one third of the present area of the American nation. As such, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world.

he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I

See, mis tuleb asjatundjatel kogemuse kaudu omandada, on psühhopaatidel algusest peale käes.

Every year I own less of what I use. Possession

Being rich, of course, meant it was easier to just keep getting what you wanted. It took less and less effort to keep it.

Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.

hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even though it's painful and you're afraid.

There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.

William McKinley (R, 1897-1901): president during the Spanish-American War that saw the United States acquire Cuba and the Philippines.

So the purpose of the axiom "having is evidence of wanting" is not at all to blame anyone or to shame them for their experience

Google after acquiring intimate knowledge of its technology may make a thousand-fold return over five to seven years. A firm such as Renaissance might make a thousand trades in a day harvesting the tiniest anomalies. With modest leverage and relentless twenty-four-hour trading around the globe,

A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.