Quotes About Acquisition

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de mantener.

The rich believed they were lucky, and that any fortune they didn't already have could be bought. They had so much already, disappointment became inconceivable.

Capitalism really had triumphed. You could buy anything from gray-colored chips the size of marbles to giant boulder-size chunks complete with spray-painted graffiti.

The woman owned never-worn Jimmy Choos and Manolos to die for and now they're all mine," Jazz announced starting up the car. "Along with some choice Prada and Kate Spade bags," she said with a reverential sigh, glancing at the bags in the passenger seat. "And the clothes," she sighed, "she's my size.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Any product, service, or piece of technology that you acquire comes with instructions, options, and features that someone else – an engineer – designed before it ever made its way to you.

he said that the head of the whole shebang, Averell Whittaker, is retiring and selling the company. I'm wondering if maybe a buyer hired the Locksmith then leaked the story to drive down the value of the company. Might be worth looking into.

TANs could be crucial to the acquisition of new behavioral skills in cognitive-behavioral therapy. In neurological terms, we could say that cognitive-behavioral therapy teaches people purposefully to alter the response contingencies of their own TANs. This is a crucial point. Such therapy teaches people to alter, by force of will, the response habits wired into their brains through TANs.

tsundoku: the act of buying so many books that they begin to pile up in a delightful mess.

I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is beside the point. Not that I don't eventually end up reading them. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy.

No, what was said in his case was that he, who didn't care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people has what he does want. (Chapter VI)

La lingua è vera, ma la maniera in cui la assorbo e utilizzo sembra finita. Un lessico cercato acquisito, resta per sempre anomalo, come se fosse artefatto, anche se non lo è.

The fact that Disney bought Maker Studios doesn't really change anything for me.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

I'm a stuffed rabbit collector.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.

No matter how much you have, that voice of "more would be better" drives you to make acquisition the name of your game. Greed is one of the many strings in the human heart, and it can be pro-survival, but unchecked by a sense of fairness, balance, and love, it can gut our capacity for joy.

Passion, pain, what's at hand—these are doorways to finding a purpose beyond material acquisition.

I liked it so much, I bought the company.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him