Acquisition Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquisition Desire Increase Men
A man is wealthy in the measure in which his wants and desires decrease — Dada JP Vaswani Copy Share Image
Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The measure of a man is what he is willing to sacrifice for, commend his love towards, that he is still willing to lend… — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning… — William James Copy Share Image
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians… — Howard Roberts 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 separation; births… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is… — Arthur Hughes Copy Share Image