Quotes by Acquisition Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. Alan Cohen acquisitionsimplenumbers Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. Alfred North Whitehead acquisitionart 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 acquisitiontriumphtasks 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 acquisitionlanguageattention The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. Anne Morrow Lindbergh acquisitionappreciationfacts I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge. Anne Sullivan Macy acquisitioncommunicationteaching I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. Annie Lennox acquisitiontoo-muchwinning 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 acquisitiongood-lifewisdom 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 Ardagh acquisitionmaythinking 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 acquisitioncrazyaverage 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 acquisitionskillshappiness The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. Benjamin Netanyahu acquisitionnuclearwould-be 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 acquisitionnextpolitical The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none. Boethius acquisitionsecretnumbers Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. Charles Elachi acquisitioncontactinformation 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 acquisitionmenknowledge 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. Charlie Munger acquisitionsmartdumb The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall]. Charlie Munger acquisitionbucketsdumb 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 Albrecht acquisitioncareersopportunity In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God. Dallin H. Oaks acquisitionalternativesmean123456»
