Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

With the new tools included in the Vision 8 Development Module, NI has released one of the industry's most comprehensive software packages for acquiring and processing images. The collection of tools includes drivers for IEEE 1394 cameras, world-class algorithms and easy-to-use software, all at an affordable price point, making it well-suited for end users and machine builders wanting to improve their system efficiencies and quality control.

Steve Ballmer

We're excited because acquiring UMT will help us meet customers' needs for deep portfolio management capabilities. By combining our software and expertise, we'll also create a new range of solution development opportunities for customers and partners.

Wang Jianlin

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.

David H. Murdock

Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.

She has been known to take the aggressive stance, instilling in everyone that they should only be acquiring established and well-documented objects.

Since we began acquiring stock we always thought this was a very good company with great prospects that maybe was not performing up to its potential.

Mitigating the price increases of ESPN is not something Comcast has to do by acquiring Disney now. It's now something that's just happening,

Mr. Kushner had a very productive discussion today with Nets ownership and with the investment bankers, and he continues to aggressively pursue acquiring the team with the purpose of keeping them in New Jersey.

The problem with rising short-term bond yields is that they boost the cost of acquiring and servicing credit, and thus they stifle domestic demand.

James Walsh

The people interested in acquiring the rights believe that his book ('Golden Boy,' Simon & Schuster Inc.) would be the basis for a very solid screen play. Wouldn't you think of him as sort of the first leading man in professional sports? I mean, the women were crazy over Paul.

Gary Blair

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

Carly Fiorina

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

Wolf Blitzer

What we have said, and we said it in the report, we have numbers of Iraqis who tell us that Saddam was committed to acquiring weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons,

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases.

Denis Diderot

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

We are acquiring a company with a strong distribution infrastructure, a valuable library and a gifted, experienced and highly entrepreneurial senior management team,

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Peter Gordon

We do consider this to be a permanent closure. So, at some point, that mill has got to be dismantled. We don't think that there would be anybody who would be interested in acquiring it.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Only those people, who have wealth can dream of acquiring gems and precious stones.

MSN was the one that may have been a logical acquiring company but they are clearly building as opposed to buying,

May our mind be inclined towards virtuous deeds, acquiring strength and long-life! May we continue to see the glorious sight of Rising Sun for eternity!

Robert Harris

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

Cardinal is gaining a lot of market share, increasing margins and acquiring proprietary products that they can sell at a higher profit.

BB&T over the years largely has grown through the merger-and- acquisition process, acquiring community banks and thrifts, and that's been successful on our part. Over the last year we've had a little of this indigestion from a lot of mergers over a short period. We needed to take a little breather to refocus on organic revenue growth, and we think we're near that period of time where our internal operations are where we want, so we're looking at getting back into the (M&A) business.

Getting a player of (Mason's) quality in addition to acquiring a first-round pick . . . has tremendous value, ... We feel this gives us a player we want and a player to add for our future.

Getting a player of his quality in addition to acquiring an unprotected first-round pick that we'll be able to use immediately in this upcoming draft is a package that we feel really has tremendous value,

Philip Green

I am delighted to announced that our third year, since acquiring the business in October 2002, has again produced an excellent set of results.

Curtis Jackson

Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when you're acquiring financing, you make adjustments. He's made those adjustments. It's his choice. For me, it's not a necessity.

Eric Schmidt

I wouldn't be shocked if someone was interested in acquiring them since there is real tangible value.