Quotes About Acquisition

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I learnt English later in life.

I didn't have any money to buy a car, so when I got my license I did not have a car at first.

Pogba is a player that Madrid would love to have - as would any team.

what is money for, if not to get what you want?

We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through

There is no substitute for due diligence. To this day, my father reads every lease our firm enters into. Before any building acquisition, every single lease must be reviewed. Yes, there are lawyers involved and that is technically their job, but he believes—and I do, too—that there is nothing like knowing the full story of a property, right down to the basic maintenance contracts.

When people ask how they can start buying buildings or what a good strategy might entail, we always suggest that they pick a neighborhood where they would like to own property and get to know that neighborhood better than anyone else.