Acquisition Quotes - Page 4

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.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.

There are black companies that are very active in the economy, that are growing and not on the basis of mergers and acquisitions, but because of putting new money into their particular companies and, therefore, their particular sectors. Indeed, if they didn't do that, they would collapse as companies.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

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

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

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

What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organisation, and others - including, in fact, the digestive system.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

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

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

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

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

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.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

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

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.

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.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have a name for the true beliefs which are the typical product of these reliable capacities. They call them items of knowledge. So I argue that talk of knowledge may thereby be seen to be embedded within a successful empirical theory.

The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.