Quotes about Acquisition

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers.

The fingers of the attacker feel what will soon belong to his whole body.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world — no matter how his affairs may seem to 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

What is at stake here for owners is not the amount of property as such, but its ability to draw an audience for whom it will be appropriately emblematic; that is, and audience who will see it as just compensation for the effort and skill used in acquiring it.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.