quotes about Acquisition
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Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
-- Alan Cohen -
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
-- Alfred Adler -
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
-- Anna SewardSource : Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13
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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
-- Aristotle -
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But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.
-- Arthur Hughes -
Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
-- Barbara De AngelisSource : Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.26, Dell
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
-- Charles ElachiSource : Charles Elachi, Jakob J. van Zyl (2006). “Introduction To The Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.
-- Charles Lamb -
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
-- Charles William Eliot -
The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.
-- David A. Clarke, Jr -
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.
-- Eric Linklater -
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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 customers was more than a dollar.
-- Eric Ries -
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.
-- Ernst MachSource : Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
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In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
-- Frank Moore ColbySource : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
-- Fulton J. SheenSource : Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.374, Simon and Schuster
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
-- George S. ClasonSource : George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.105, Lulu.com
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
-- Gerald Brenan -
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
-- James Surowiecki -
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Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.
-- Jared Diamond -
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.
-- Jean Berko GleasonSource : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.
-- John CarrollSource : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.120, Taylor & Francis
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If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.
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Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
-- John James IngallsSource : John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”
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When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.
-- Judy Cannato -
To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.
-- Kumar Mangalam Birla -
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Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
-- Larry Ellison -
In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.
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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.
-- Louis O. Kelso -
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We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.
-- Major Owens -
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
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My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
-- Margaret EdsonSource : Margaret Edson (2014). “Wit: A Play”, p.44, Macmillan
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A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
-- Maria Mitchell -
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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
-- Max Planck -
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.
-- Max WeberSource : 1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).
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On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
-- Meriwether LewisSource : Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.46, tredition
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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
-- Michael Gove -
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All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.
-- Milarepa -
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.
-- Peter Morville -
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
-- Philip James Bailey -
It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.
-- Philippe PinelSource : Philippe Pinel (1806). “A Treatise on Insanity: In which are Contained the Principles of a New and More Practical Nosology of Maniacal Disorders Than Has Yet Been Offered to the Public ...”, p.10
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An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
-- Ramana Maharshi -
We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions
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That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.
-- Robert Neelly BellahSource : Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco
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Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
-- Roy Romer -
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
-- Sadie Jones -
Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.
-- Seo Do-young -
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.
-- Strive Masiyiwa -
I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.
-- Thomas Chalmers -
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
-- Tim MinchinSource : Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.
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Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.
-- Wayne Dyer -
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One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.
-- Andre Luiz Moreira -
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.
-- Arthur Middleton Hughes -
Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.
-- Chris AlbrechtSource : Source: collider.com
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I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.
-- Hilary KornblithSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.
-- Hilary Kornblith -
Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.
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I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you.
-- Arjuna ArdaghSource : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.
-- Helen and Scott Nearing -
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Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
-- Susan George -
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
-- Kara Swisher