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Quotes About Acquisition

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.
~ Meg Whitman
Your customers are the customers of other brands who occasionally buy you.
~ Unknown
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
~ Harold Geneen
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
~ Wang Jianlin
New customers are the best source of new business
~ Frank Bettger
I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.
~ Morgan Freeman
Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
~ Will Rogers
My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.
~ Victor Pinchuk
The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.
~ Auliq-Ice
I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!
~ Rocky Graziano
Helen recognised that she, and Edward, and Dorothy herself, for that matter, were not as others are when it came to possession. She seldom wanted anything. Edward was the same. Her mother had hated spending money, not out of parsimony but laziness. Whatever it was in the make-up of most people that responds to the sight of goods for sale had been left out, in their case.
~ Penelope Lively
Feelings, too, are socialized—we learn what they are, or rather, we acquire meanings for them.
~ Unknown
Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.
~ Peter Kreeft
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
~ Peter Kreeft
Compulsory purchase order. March 13th, 2017.
~ Peter Robinson
For nomadic societies, there was no point in owning anything that one could not carry, but once humans settled down and developed a system of money, that limit to acquisition disappeared.
~ Peter Singer
You're dying to hear what she said. And you will. The three principles are: "One. If something is free to be taken, take it. "Two. Other people exist so that you may use them. "Three. Nothing on earth means anything, or can mean anything, but what it is.
~ Peter Straub
It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors.
~ Philip K. Dick
For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
~ Philip Pullman
For a human being, nothing comes naturally," said Grumman. "We have to learn everything we do.
~ Philip Pullman
Si elle partage vos sentiments? Quelle différence cela fait-il? Achetez-la, quoi qu'il en soit! Hélicon secoua la tête. -On peut acheter de l'or brilliant comme le soleil, et des diamants à l'éclat lunaire. Mais on ne peut pas acheter le soleil, ni posséder la lune.
~ David Gemmell
I wanted it, I wanted, I wanted, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me.
~ David Sedaris
I wanted it, I wanted it, I wanted it, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me.
~ David Sedaris