The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
“But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest” — Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“IT is the business’s competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a… — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves… — William James Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential...… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions — Richard I of England Copy Share Image
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image