Acquisition Quotes

“Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself. The giant of self-achieved independence is the world’s messenger of disaster, even though, in his mind, he may entertain himself with humane intentions.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“I can admire, but I no longer covet. Books of course are another matter; books are not acquisitions, they are necessities.”
― Penelope Lively, Ammonites And Leaping Fish: A Life In Time

“The kinds of purchases surveyed in the news generally sit well beyond necessity. In acquiring them, what we are after is rarely solely or even chiefly just material satisfaction; we are also guided by a deeper, often unconscious desire for some form of psychological transformation. We don't only want to own things; we want to be changed through our ownership of them. Once we examine consumer behaviour with sufficient attention and generosity, it becomes clear that we aren't indelibly materialistic at all. What makes our age distinctive is our ambition to try to accomplish a variety of complex psychological goals via the acquisition of material goods.”
― Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual

“I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals...”
― Adam Langer, The Salinger Contract

“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”
― Paul Bamikole

“Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When considering the acquisition of new sources of revenue, the business must account for the costs that must be incurred prior to the acquisition, and the costs associated with the maintenance of that source of revenue.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Yeah, take it from me. He may try to sell himself to you along with the company. And then there is Roberto, the CEO of our acquisition target. He also seems to be a bit of a flirt. Those two are like moths around a light bulb with you. Any idea how you would react if they both came after you?”
― Karynne Summars, Desperate Pursuit in Venice

“Regardless of all what you have done or the treasures you have acquired on earth, what counts before God is what you have invested in the Kingdom of God”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition. When people with money succumb to the charms of those useless little objects, they possess them with the joy of a child gathering sea shells on the beach--the image that best expresses the child's happiness. He gathers shells on the beach! No two are ever alike for a child. He falls asleep with the two prettiest ones in his hand, and when they're lost or taken from him (A crime! They've made off with outward bits of his soul! They've stolen pieces of his dream!), he weeps like a God robbed of a just-created universe.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I have owned, I confess, thousands of objects. Even if today most of them are nothing more than memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire. Acquisition, being, for some mysterious reason, the most important act, like a gambler throwing dice. The idea of speculation has never crossed my mind, nor of "decoration." Collecting is for me both essential and completely useless.”
― Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors

“I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“People seek new jobs, cars, music systems, televisions or house because they are tired of the existing ones. Their boredom gets alleviated when they are looking at the various options available in the market for these things and then trying to figure out the finance part of it—to buy it with down payment or EMI—and dreaming of the joy of having new things in their lives. However, their boredom is back again once they get used to their new acquisition.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“It's about shopping more generally. When you shop, you expand, Melba. You stretch out your hand and also your psyche to compass the thing that you desire, and then, when the moment is right, you clamp down, you squeeze around the thing! Expansion and contraction, Melba, that's shopping. It's a spasm! A special spasm. You've heard of these spasms? Not just a pleasant jolt. Jolts don't penetrate to great depths and they have no duration. A spasm is different; it's a rippling that works the fascia to keep your inner linings from drying out.”
― Joanna Ruocco, Dan

“A business that thinks beyond 'profit making' and 'profit maximization' by incorporating corporate ethics and contributes to the society at large, through its well defined corporate social responsibilty policy, is the one that will withstand the test of time and meet sustainable growth in the market. I believe its curve will never grow flat for a good number of years and may only meet merger or acquisitions but rarely a winding up.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin - Legal Counsel & Author

“Aggressive is necessary for acquisition of knowledge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.”
― Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors

“The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.”
― Pierre Le-Tan, A Few Collectors

“Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is how much you spend to convince someone to buy your product once. This is where the fantasy of “viral growth” meets reality. You might have a brilliant product, but if you’re spending $500 to get someone to pay $50, congratulations: you’re running a charity, not a business.”
― Renata Škarpa, Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.