Acquisition Quotes

“Retention trumps acquisition.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.”

— Bryant McGill

“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”

— Alastair Reynolds

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

— Socrates

“Our end is the acquisition of knowledge.”

— James Joyce

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

— Hesiod

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

— Ginni Rometty

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

— Publilius Syrus

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Many technology companies prioritize acquisition targets based on how well they are integrated with their existing API.”

— Sangeet Paul Choudary

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

— Ramana Maharshi

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

— Frank Moore Colby

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

— Rick Warren

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

— Robert Downey, Jr

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and…

— Dallin H. Oaks

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to…

— Whitey Herzog

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a…

— John Dewey

Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic…

— Martha Beck

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and…

— Roy Romer

I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that…

— Hilary Kornblith

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on…

— Peggy Johnson

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of…

— Terence McKenna

The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man;…

— David O. McKay

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One…

— H. L. Mencken

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on…

— Suzanne Collins

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great…

— Mark Twain

Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession… Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and…

— Thomas Aquinas

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,…

— Otto Weininger

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the…

— Martin Filler

For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part…

— Max Weber

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my…

— Linus Pauling

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as…

— Aristotle

[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of…

— Barry Goldwater

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator. It's…

— Jake Lodwick