Quotes About Acquisition

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

que rien n'est jamais acquis et que nos fragilités restent, malgré les masques de la force. La force, finalement, c'est d'assumer ses fragilités et non se persuader qu'on les a dépassées, à moins que le fait de les dépasser consiste simplement à les assumer...

A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase.

The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.

Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on iOS and Android. And what I would like to highlight with that one is the speed that we actually turned that around and brought it out the door.

I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

I did splash out on a 1964 Fender Jaguar guitar in L.A.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

I'll buy it right now, Jack, said an English voice, somehow familiar, if you stop being such a fucking tosser, that is.

Power, let us not forget, is not just about being able to buy whatever you want; that is mere wealth. Power is about being able to get whatever you want at below the market price.

This again results naturally and necessarily from the circumstance that the Prince cannot avoid giving offence to his new subjects, either in respect of the troops he quarters on them, or of some other of the numberless vexations attendant on a new acquisition.

But when states are acquired in a country differing in language, customs, or laws, there are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed to hold them, and one of the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has acquired them should go and reside there.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.