Quotes About Acquisition

During the time of Webex growing from $0 to greater than $700M, the company was sold to Cisco. The Webex team lost the passion and drive to further grow the business because many Webex veterans left and Cisco's integration with Webex was not successful.

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel.

To allow our audiences to watch more professionally produced video content, we acquired Major League Gaming - MLG - and we expect MLG to become the 'ESPN of Videogames' with a focus on the celebration of gamers, both amateur and professionals.

Troubled are they who want the world, troubled are they who have it.

The problem with collecting other people's junk is you just don't know what to do with it when you don't want it anymore. You feel bad about throwing it to the curb. It's too much trouble to sell. So you keep it around, knowing if you can't redeem it, exactly, you've at least rescued it. Somewhat.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Dragons didn't fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster's body parts.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Nothing is more untrue than the famous saying of an ancient historian, that power is retained by the same arts by which it is acquired; untrue at least for men, though truer in the case of nations.

Monsieur Moscat .... You won't ever guess HIS favorite, [Lucie] says. He hasn't gotten one. [Vianne:] I find that difficult to believe, I smile. Everyone has a favorite. Even Monsieur Muscat. Lucie considers this for a moment. Maybe his favorite is the one he takes from someone else, she tells me limpidly.

We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession.

It's not the having it's the getting.

It's better sometimes to not care than to be too good, people will always take what they never stress to get for granted, easy come, easy go.

Commitment: is a willingness to give your time and energy to something that you believe in, or a promise or firm decision to do something. Learning helps in acquisition of knowledge or skills that makes rich in experience to live a meaningful life.

Money is power, wealth is a defence, how do you desire them?

People can't learn anything from buying but from selling.

The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them.

By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.

Short-term profits are not reliable indicator of performance of management. Anybody can pay dividends by deferring maintenance, cutting out research, or acquiring another company.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.