Quotes About Acquisition

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

Do I think that if Google wanted to go acquire a competitor, another big company, we should say no? Of course. We shouldn't be approving them acquiring AT&T or Sprint or some big company.

The truth is that if you don't buy, improving the squad becomes difficult.

In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

Yes, we have taken a place in Juhu and it has been a costly affair since it's about 25,000 square feet in size.

For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he is a better player than our own Joe Gedeon, but he has played better ball, and we wanted him. Well, how did I get him? I paid $15,000 in cash and gave away a number of good players for him. But what can you do?

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue.

Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

for it happens that books are the only article of property in which I am richer than my neighbors.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

I'm not a materialistic person at all, but I always want the next thing; I've got a nice toolbox, but I still want another set of spanners.