Acquisition Quotes

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

— Socrates

“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“Retention trumps acquisition.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.”

— Bryant McGill

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

— Anonymous

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

— Samuel Johnson

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

— Publilius Syrus

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

— Margaret Edson

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

— William Gilmore Simms

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

— Eric Linklater

. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

— Sigourney Weaver

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

— Pietro Metastasio

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

— Jean Piaget

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

— James Surowiecki

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we…

— Laura Schlessinger

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

— Macarius of Egypt

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always…

— Kara Swisher

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved…

— Sandra Cisneros

Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just…

— Peter Morville

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching…

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands…

— David A. Clarke, Jr

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…

— William James

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added…

— Arthur Lynch

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the…

— Anonymous

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new…

— William James

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness…

— Samuel Johnson

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future…

— John Moody

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History…

— Noah Feldman

All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

[G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of…

— Barry Goldwater

An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator. It's…

— Jake Lodwick

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my…

— Linus Pauling

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as…

— Aristotle

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,…

— Otto Weininger

For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part…

— Max Weber