Quotes About Acquisition

If a man has money it is usually a sign too that he knows how to take care of it don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

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

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

For greed, all nature is too little.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

Why be greedy when you can have it all.

Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.