Acquisition Quotes · Page 4

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

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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

— Max Planck

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they…

— Adam Langer

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and…

— Charles William Eliot

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not…

— Peggy Johnson

The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for…

— Tad R. Callister

Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in…

— Robert Greene

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is…

— Sai Baba

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them…

— Charles Bass

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of…

— Warren Buffett

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process…

— Barry Eisler

Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this…

— Rudolf Steiner

Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way…

— Russell Brand

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition…

— Bertrand Russell

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really…

— Larry Ellison

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most…

— Emma Goldman

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a…

— Noam Chomsky

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition…

— Midge Decter

Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential...…

— Howard Roberts

If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,…

— Robert Wright

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

— Charles Elachi

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

— Arthur Blank

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

— Helen and Scott Nearing

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

— Vernon Howard

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee