Quotes About Acquisition

you make your money in real estate when you buy it, not when you sell it.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

What does somebody need to do to buy your product? ("Click buy now?" "Call today?") The answers to these questions should be short, simple, and easy to understand. Remember, customers do not move into confusion.

Like our no doubt ridiculous idea that beauty conforms to some standard or ideal; like our risible belief that we have the option to behave honourably and should take it; and like our idiotic idea that the final purpose of human existence is something more than the acquisition of wealth.

Me preguntaba si aquella seguridad en sí mismos era algo que podía adquirirse o si, como los padres y la piel perfecta, era algo con lo que nacías.

The NCOs on his staff were all convinced that his regulation-length brown mustache was the result of the time he spent crawling up the SOCOM acquisition director's ass. This, along with his rodentlike face, led to his nickname: Gerbil.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

When I took these things from the house: some tapes, some books, my winter clothes, I did not know that these would become the things I own.

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Sergestid shrimp, he suggests, acquired, integrated, and put to work at least four intact genomes. To Williamson the inheritance of these acquired genomes, not random mutations, determines the evolutionary success of these shrimp today.

The second toxic myth is that more is better. More of anything is better than what we have. It's the logical response if you fear there's not enough, but more is better drives a competitive culture of accumulation, acquisition, and greed that only heightens fears and quickens the pace of the race.

Again,—we are gifted with a desire of knowledge, which is stimulated, rather than satisfied, by acquisition. We are here placed in the midst of objects of inquiry, which meet that desire; and there is still an unexplored physical, mental and moral creation around us. Here then are supplied the means of our further intellectual growth.

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

there wouldn't be any buying it on FamousRainforest and having it auto-shipped to her location.

and we smoke their sorrow contentedly; and we eat their sorrow; and we wear their sorrow; and wonder how it came so cheap. It

He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him.

Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

Out of his other property, out of all the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling; out of her he got none.

In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna, ever photogenic, as she damned well be, emanated glamour. Carl looked rich, thin, and young, he thought, and Imelda was as baffling in print as she was in person. Was she really a work of art? Or was she just a hodgepodge of bronze and cement thrown together by some confused soul working hard to appear tortured?

child is not born with the tendency to neglect; it has to be acquired.