We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and…

I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly…

— Lee Atwater

No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he…

— Thomas Huxley

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

— Chanakya

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

— Publilius Syrus

Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes,…

— Ludwig von Mises

I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I…

— Lee Atwater

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa,…

— Alice Krige

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“I have acquired you, and now I will determine your value to me.”

— Robert Peate

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

“it seemed to her that she had acquired not virtues but a form of dementia”

— Doris Lessing

Confidence is acquired through failure

— Corey P Smith

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had…

— Joe Perry

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings