Quotes About Acquisition

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

Bill Casey called her the next morning to say he wanted her to bid on the two paintings at Christie's, to start his collection. His wife had liked them too, when he showed her the images. They established a maximum price she could bid up to. He sounded very excited, and she was happy for him. This was a major step, and a big investment

L'année suivante, quand l'acheteuse avait commandé une centaine

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

Regarding a prospective company's position in its industry, think hard about whether you might roll up multiple players in a fragmented industry to create a juggernaut. When we entered the gas detection business, there were no big players, but over an eight-year period we were able to acquire several companies, roll them up into a single Honeywell business, and become number one in the industry.

We created a corporate handbook that each business unit had to follow when performing due diligence on a potential acquisition.

If you have a great strategy but overpay for a company, someone else's shareholders will see the benefits of your strategy, not yours.

Advance organizers are brief chunks of information—spoken, written, or illustrated—presented prior to new material to help facilitate learning and understanding.

Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

I ask you most humbly to continue loving me a little, and to be content for the moment with this token of a congratulation until new drawers can be made for my small little brain box, so I have a place to put the brain that I still hope to acquire.

If you want to learn something, just steal it.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

The magic of sex is itís acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, thereís no storage problem.

Para ter o que eu tinha eu nunca precisara nem de dor nem de talento. O que eu tinha não me era conquista, era dom.

Those who cannot adopt or compete in the dominant status order — closely associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the mastery of complex cultural performances — make opposition to this order a badge of pride and recognition. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is an indicator of this process. People make themselves believe in them, because it induces them into an alternative world of status and rank.

As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.

The parallel, rather, is with human language. It is human to have the ability to speak, an essential part of the image of God in us. Nonetheless, concrete language, which exists in countless forms, is not native but acquired; it is learned.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

If you were going to get someone's soul, Call thought, it would be nice if you also got their superior penmanship.

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.