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
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to take this money and go do a bunch of things with it immediately. We will continue looking at… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer… — Arthur Hughes Copy Share Image
Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time… — John Collison Copy Share Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative. — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile… — Sandy Adams Copy Share Image
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word,… — Kevin Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves… — William James Copy Share Image
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a… — Anita Elberse 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
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image