Quotes About Acquisition

You can't own something unless you can swallow it

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest

Es más importante adquirir clientes que cuenten, en lugar de contar a los clientes que se adquieren.

If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.

I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that.

The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick them up.

Life, said Wesson, who had had time for reflection, is a house which we all burgle. We enter it uninvited, take all that we can lay hands on, and go out again.

Jamie Dimon is in a position to scoop up assets on the cheap. That's how you create value for the long term.

As history has shown, what happens after the deal determines the ultimate success. It's one thing to make an acquisition, and another to integrate it well.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

By the time they were done, EOG's land men had acquired half a million acres at $400 an acre. EOG thought it had acquired almost a billion barrels of oil.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?

It is perhaps the best fruit of philosophy that through it we unlearn the lesson of endless acquisition which an industrial environment so insistently repeats. "Philosophy directs us first to seek the goods of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied, or not much wanted."69 A bit of wisdom is a joy forever.

It is memory that classifies and interprets sensations into perceptions, and perceptions into ideas; but memory is an accretion. That unity of the mind which Kant thinks native (the "transcendental unity of apperception") is acquired—and not by all; and can be lost as well as won—in amnesia, or alternating personality, or insanity. Concepts are an achievement, not a gift.

The elements of instruction . . . should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion; for a freeman should be a freeman too in the acquisition of knowledge . . . . Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child (536).

civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation, and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end. Man differs from the beast only by education, which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization.

For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation, and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end. Man differs from the beast only by education, which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization.

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.