Quotes About Acquisition

We are more willing to invest in defending what is already ours than we are to take what is someone else's, because the motivation to avoid losing what we already have is greater than the motivation of gaining what we don't yet have.

His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

starters, if they are available in your town, try to acquire houses built after 1978 because this will automatically remove you and your business from all of the risks associated with lead-based paint.

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder.

according to one analysis, from 2000 to 2009, the largest media conglomerates together wrote down more than $200 billion in assets. And these companies' poor stock performance relative to indexes such as the S&P predates the business destruction precipitated by the Internet. Media companies have a history of predominantly achieving growth through acquisition, but revenue growth has not necessarily translated into better stock performance and a certain kind of market power.40

En el siglo XXI, el poder es más fácil de adquirir, más difícil de utilizar y más fácil de perder. Desde las salas de juntas y las zonas de combate hasta el ciberespacio, las luchas de poder son tan intensas como lo han sido siempre, pero cada vez dan menos resultados.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

La Libertad es el derecho natural, para todo individuo, de disponer de si mismo y de lo que ha adquirido ya sea por medio de la transformación, intercambio o la donación. La Libertad y el derecho a la propiedad son, pues, indisociables. Todo atentado a la propiedad es un atentado a la libertad .

I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate.

Technological immodesty is always an acute danger in Technopoly, which encourages it. Technopoly also encourages in-sensitivity to what skills may be lost in the acquisition of new ones. It is important to remember what can be done without computers, and it is also important to remind ourselves of what may be lost when we do use them.

without dissatisfaction, there's no basis for a sale.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

The cost had been met by the sale of Louisiana, recently wrested from Spain, to the United States.

tsundoku – a word that required a sentence in English: buying books and piling them up on a shelf without reading them.

material for years. It seems that the aliens go to a lot of trouble to acquire material that could be obtained far more easily elsewhere. Unless the genetic theory is wrong. It might be that we are misinterpreting the data, or it might be that we are taking the bait and falling for a neat but incorrect solution designed to distract us from the real answer to the mystery.

Idéologie de l'homme moderne: acheter le plus d'objets possibles; réaliser le plus de voyages possibles; copuler le plus grand nombre de fois possible.

Yes, it isn't long since I purchased it," said Nozdrev. "How long?" "How long? Why, I purchased it three days ago, and gave a pretty sum for it, as the devil knows!" "Indeed? Why, three days ago you were at the fair?" "Wiseacre! Cannot one be at a fair and buy land at the same time? Yes, I WAS at the fair, and my steward bought the land in my absence.

Britain had an asset that became increasingly important as the war went on, the existence of which was only disclosed thirty years after the war ended (Churchill did not mention it in his history of the war). With the help of Polish intelligence, the British had acquired the basic German military coding machine, called Enigma.