Steve Jobs

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

American Businessman

Robert Zubrin

In any economy, the entire population is supported by the part of it that is working. All other things being equal, it thus follows that the most attractive acquisition a society can have is a young adult, whose childhood and education has already been paid for, but whose entire working life still lies ahead.

American Scientist

Maria Montessori

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

Italian Educator

Sandy Adams

I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries.

American Politician

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

American President

Orison Swett Marden

Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

American Writer

Jane Austen

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.

British Writer

P. G. Wodehouse

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

English Writer

Richard Edelman

Edelman maintains a very conservative balance sheet. We do small acquisitions. This helps me sleep well at night.

Hesiod

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Greek Poet

Acquisition implies active effort or intent in gaining something, not just receiving it passively.

Active Process

Often carries a positive tone, suggesting success in gaining a desired item or skill.

Positive Connotation

Used when items are added to a collection, implying value or personal interest.

Adding to Collections

Suggests an investment in an object that holds personal significance or utility.

Personal Investment

Refers to gaining control or ownership in a business context, often strategic.

Business Control

Indicates a calculated method for a company to expand its business and assets.

Strategic Growth

Often used in educational contexts to describe how one learns or picks up new abilities.

Learning Context

Can apply to daily life experiences, like learning to cook or ride a bike.

Beyond Education

 and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods.

A kinder, gentler...

 trying to understand the influence of social environments on language acquisition. So we're looking here at one of the first things we started to do. This is my wife and I cooking breakfast in the kitchen, and as we move through space and through time, a very everyday pattern of life in the kitchen.

Deb Roy: The birth of a...

 I know in my career I do a lot of business plans and its really helped me from what I learned when I was young including an eight point six billion dollar acquisition I did for our company just three years ago woohoo and triple the size of frontier so risk-taking so

The art of responsibility...

 and he came one day back to campus. And he told me the following He said that for more than two weeks, he was working on a PowerPoint presentation. He was working in a big bank, and this was in preparation for a merger and acquisition.

What makes us feel good...

 as part of the collective acquisition of new knowledge. Finding ways to improve the reproducibility of our results can help us weed out those false starts more effectively, keeping us moving steadily toward exciting new discoveries.

Is there a reproducibilit...

 Then, over multiple nights of sleep, the new words gradually transfer over and interweave with old ones. Researchers think this gradual acquisition process helps avoid disrupting existing words. So in the daytime,

How do our brains...

 I got very lucky. I predicted the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon the week before it happened. This is me boasting; I said this publicly in the media. This was the largest acquisition in their history,

How Amazon, Apple,...

 But it's a decidedly risky acquisition. The risk paid off handsomely. The new shell is both lighter and stronger than the old home and it's not a moment too soon,

Giant Horse Conch &...

 and filming these elusive cats we have generated the basis for the acquisition of additional land and the protection of

Saving Endangered...

 wait any longer but it's a decidedly risky acquisition the risk paid off handsomely the new shell is both Lysa