Quotes About Acquisition

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.

I remember wanting a Scotty Cameron Circle T putter really badly. I remember the first time I went to the Studio and I got to pick one out and have it customized. That was pretty cool.

Our acquisition strategy is very clear: 3x3. Three continents - Asia, Africa and South America, and in three categories where we have strong positions - personal wash, household care and hair care.

I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

....whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.

For consumer society poverty is whatever cannot be consumed.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.

Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.

I probably have 15 to 20 Dalis in the store. The secret to buying Dali - never buy one made after 1970.

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

I've been on a dog-buying spree. I got two Yorkies and a small teacup Chihuahua.

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.