Quotes and Sayings 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 Seward -
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 -
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 Angelis -
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.
-- Charles Elachi -
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 -
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 Mach -
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
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. Sheen -
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
-- George S. Clason -
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 -
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 Gleason -
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
-- Jean Piaget -
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 Carroll -
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.
-- John Frederick Demartini -
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
-- John James Ingalls -
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 -
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.
-- Larry Ellison
