A Quote by Eric Linklater

For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.

Eric Linklater

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Acquisition Almost Knowledge Routine Scientific Tedious Wealth

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Eric Linklater
Scottish - Writer
March 8, 1899 - November 7, 1974

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Lev S. Vygotsky

The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.

Dilip Shanghvi

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

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

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Socrates

Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

Hamza Yusuf

Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.

Robert Bunsen

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

John Moody

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Edgar Allan Poe

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.