Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Susan George

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Max Planck

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Philip James Bailey

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

Jean Piaget

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

Duncan King

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Jim Valentine

These mergers are messy. They take a long time to do. That's why you don't want to own that name during a deal.

Earl Comstock

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

Patrice Solaro

The time of big mergers is over, for the moment, but we can see more strategic alliances of the Renault and Nissan kind.

Angela Braly

We get talent and scale from mergers.

John Naisbitt

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

Guy Moszkowski

Mergers and acquisitions have been very strong and produced a lot of ancillary financing.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Van Jones

America's government has to get the public investments right.

Bill Gross

Investment markets in the United States will not ultimately prosper under such an increasingly odorous environment.

Joseph Ramos

Investment has been very strong and consumption remains very strong.

Mitch Pally

If you're going to invest, you want to make sure you receive your investment back and then some.

Bill Gates

If you look at our investment in the next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on. Microsoft has a big responsibility here.