Acquisition Quotes

• 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

  Political, Next, Politics

  'Sceptical Essays' (1928) 'Recrudescence of Puritanism'

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Government

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Education, Business

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65

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

  Pietro Metastasio

  Fear, Risk, Trying

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Farewell, Nwo, Cold War

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

  John Naisbitt

  Life, Change, Future

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Character, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

  Hesiod

  Life, Mean, Inspire

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.99, University of Michigan Press

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Achievement, Lists, Life Is

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• The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

  Whitey Herzog

  Team, Keys, Two

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• On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Government, Years, Louisiana

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.46, tredition

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• The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Two, Understanding

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• 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

  Mean, Listening, Culture

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.78, Wesleyan University Press

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• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Healing, Good Friend

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• The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Past, Technology

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• 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

  Attention, Language, Study

  Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

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• And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Years, People

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• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Children, Sapphires

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

  John B. Larson

  Successful, Order, Marketing

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• So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

  Havelock Ellis

  Country, War, Successful

  Arthur William Allen, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton, Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) (1913). “President Wilson on the United States and Latin America: Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913”

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• An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.

  Publilius Syrus

  Loss, Ends

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• 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

  Appreciation, Facts, Instinct

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Sex, Philosophical

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• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

  Jean Piaget

  Accommodations, Assimilation, Materials

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.353, Routledge

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• To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Girl, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.603, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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