Quotes About Acquisition

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

The natural man has only two primal passions - to get and beget.

To the victors belong the spoils.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Ko obrazom pla?a ono što ste?e, taj je r?av trgovac.

Tko obrazom pla?a ono što ste?e, taj je r?av trgovac.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

For the price of the download or hard copy, anyone can own the book and read it countless times.

Turned out, her version of true love had a compulsive element to it. Made sense. Happiness had always bored her. A cycle of aching need, followed by ecstatic acquisition or fulfillment, culminating with a glow of satisfaction? That was her fucking jam.

I think that Amazon made an incredible play with the Twitch purchase.

After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company.

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

The more we take, the less we become.

The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.