Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image
Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your… — Strive Masiyiwa Copy Share Image
For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the… — Boethius Copy Share Image
The Internet has been an invaluable acquisition. I wonder how we would do without it. Information can be sent from one country… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We find that when we make an acquisition, or we have a hiring experience, that's one of the hardest things to change.… — Charles Koch 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
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. — Charles Darwin 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
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
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
“Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
