Quotes by Acquisition As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger. Hillary Clinton acquisition independent president Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. J. K. Rowling acquisition knowing lying Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. J. K. Rowling acquisition achievement lists Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads. James M. Barrie acquisition relief science Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. James Surowiecki mergers acquisition names Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition. Jamie Dimon acquisition scratches issues 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 acquisition body world Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. Jean Berko Gleason acquisition evolution language Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. Jean Piaget assimilation accommodations acquisition An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. Jeremy Taylor acquisition arrows unjust The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. Johann Kaspar Lavater acquisition acquaintance one-thing It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.' John Cage acquisition listening mean 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 acquisition excellence goal The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life. John Dewey acquisition skills use 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 acquisition essentials desire Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. John James Ingalls acquisition environment happiness In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it. John Wooden acquisition rewards accomplishment Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. Jose Ortega y Gasset precarious acquisition men The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain. Joseph Conrad acquisition pain art The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. Joseph Conrad acquisition appeals artist «123456»