Acquisition Quotes · Page 4

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

— Seraphim of Sarov

“Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

— Marc Andreessen

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

— Max Planck

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

— Brad Feld

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

— Alan Cohen

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

— Laurence Sterne

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

— Marshall McLuhan

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the…

— Barton Gellman

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also…

— Ray Dalio

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is…

— John Dewey

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a…

— James Wood

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions,…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,…

— John Adams

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped…

— C. A. Bartol

I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff. That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of…

— Michael Abrash

And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no…

— Winston Churchill

Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no…

— Frederick Douglass

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render…

— Richard M. Weaver

Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off…

— Eric Fellner

It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;…

— Warren Buffett

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of…

— William James

For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As…

— Bill Viola

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

— Leo Tolstoy

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

— Anonymous

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

— Epicurus

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

— Horace Mann

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

— Anonymous

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

— Epicurus

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

— Louis R. Chenevert

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

— Thomas Paine

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

— Edgar Allan Poe

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

— Annie Lennox

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

— Michael Gove