Top 358 Acquisition Quotes & Sayings

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

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.

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

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.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

You can't get into the trap of paying for customer acquisition.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

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

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.

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

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

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.

The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable. To my mind, the plausibility of internalist views about justification is dramatically decreased when one becomes vividly aware of what introspection and reflection actually achieve.

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.

I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

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.

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

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.