Quotes About Acquisition

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

A woman is always buying something.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

The government has confiscated over 360 acres of my choicest pastureland to build a radar intercepting station.

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.

I now know how to steal a watch when someone's wearing it. It's an excellent talent to have.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

We had staffed up to do 'Doom 4' internally in parallel with 'Rage'. We also had our mobile and 'Quake Live' departments. We were taking a lot of steps to kind of provide a little bit more scope and protection for ourselves. And we certainly were listening to offers from all the majors about acquisition.

a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means.

Wat wij te goedkoop verwerven, schatten we te laag in. Het is duurte die alles zijn waarde geeft.

Toho, co snadno získáme, si pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ nevážíme. Pouze to, o co musíme usilovat, má skute?nou hodnotu.

the sort of books that cost too much unless you got them free.

Today, Champagne Veuve Clicquot is owned by the luxury conglomerate LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, acquired 1987), which also owns Champagne Moët et Chandon.

Our possessions possess us. We were not born with possessions, but acquired them later.

GPS's battery draining behavior is most noticeable during the initial acquisition of the satellite's navigation message: the satellite's state, ephemeris, and almanac.

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

Ve?inu smo novca ulagali ili trošili na kupnju parcela i starih zgrada za budu?e gradnje u dijelovima grada koji ?e poskupjeti. Posebice kupuju?i prazna zemljišta izvan grada, osje?ao sam se poput sultana koji pokušava zaboraviti na bol zbog nemanja djece pripajaju?i nove države svome carstvu.

Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.

Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure." The researchers called this phenomenon "mindless accumulation