That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. — William McKinley Copy Share Image
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
…those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
