Quotes About Acquisition

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.

Google's acquisition of an R & D company closely linked to the military instigated a round of speculation. Many suggested that Google, having bought a military robotics firm, might become a weapons maker. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In his discussions with the technologists at the companies he was acquiring, Rubin sketched out a vision of robots that would safely complete tasks performed by delivery workers at UPS and FedEx.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

To be content you must not focus on what you're short of, but rather cherish the little on your side and don't forget to learn how to get what you lack from the little you've earned.

That which belongs to others pleases us most, while that which belongs to us is most valued by others.

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

Recruiting Is Sales

Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

What they sought in the first instance was moveable wealth – gold, silver and slaves.

Apparently Jeff Bezos thought this business model was a great idea, so much so that he acquired an e-card company of his own. My job was to take what I could from that acquired site and build a new Amazon e-card site. And I was expected to have it all up and running in a few months. It was like being told to build an airplane, but with no blueprints, and also you're a cocker spaniel.

The beauty of the imagination is that it can discover such magnificent vastness inside a tiny space. Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it brings no delight.

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have made breakthroughs in particular areas. They are buying creativity, though the immediate rush this produces doesn't last long. Once integrated into an administrative atmosphere, the creativity is sucked out of them. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not. -Uncle John

Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners;

Funny thing. I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need.