Quotes About Acquisition

America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Learn continuously. You may be out of formal education, but that doesn't mean you have to stop learning. Education never stops.

We have an inglorious knack fo accumulating stuff....an economic model of mass production and planned obsolescence that continues to hold sway. Whether it's because fashions change or because products are manufactured to fail, we're primed to buy as often as possible. The psychology of advertising has optimized the selling of stuff to every demographic. Eighteen-month-old children have an average repertoire of two hundred brands they recognize before the first grade.

Money at that level was not something that could be counted; it was dynamic, a living thing that swelled and shrank and consumed the money of others, companies buying companies buying companies for fifty iterations.

I'm going to buy a box tomorrow.

The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

If you can't afford it, you can't have it.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

The covetous man is always poor.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Energize all your experience to develop & acquire skills & wisdom to make you a person of success.

True self-confidence isn't an overnight acquisition. It takes dedication to realize you are a good human being that is worthy of respect and love.

One of the fundamental ways man adapts is to acquire and possess property. It is how he makes his home, finds or grows food, makes clothing, and generally improves his life. Private property is not an artificial construct. It is endemic to human nature and survival.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.