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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government
Will
Power
Guard
Complex
Must
Rise
Potential
Misplaced
Disastrous
Sought
Unwarranted
Exists
Persist
Influence
Whether
Against
Acquisition
Military-Industrial
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Guard
Complex
Must
Sought
Unwarranted
Influence
Whether
Against
Acquisition
Military-Industrial
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
Power
Others
Pleasure
Consists
Ourselves
More
Preventing
Generally
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Themselves
Acquisition
Next
Enjoying
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
Alone
Knowledge
Understanding
Our
Must
Intuition
Rely
Operations
Said
Which
Acquisition
Deduction
Two
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
John Cage
Music
Entertainment
Culture
Better
Distraction
Perform
Piece
Make
Misuse
Than
Listen
Acquisition
Means
Our acquisition strategy is very clear: 3x3. Three continents - Asia, Africa and South America, and in three categories where we have strong positions - personal wash, household care and hair care.
Adi Godrej
Strong
Care
Three
Hair
Strategy
Positions
Our
Clear
Categories
Household
Continents
South
South America
Very
America
Personal
Africa
Where
Asia
Acquisition
Wash
Adecco and Penna have a long history of working together, and Penna represents an excellent strategic fit for Adecco in U.K. HR services, expanding the breadth and depth of services Adecco is able to offer to its clients. The acquisition of Penna also offers meaningful synergy potential for Adecco in the U.K.
Alain Dehaze
History
Working Together
Together
Long
Synergy
Able
Potential
Long History
Excellent
Also
Clients
Fit
Expanding
Offer
Offers
Represents
Breadth
Meaningful
Acquisition
Depth
Working
Strategic
Services
The acquisition of Vettery accelerates the development of the Adecco Group's digital strategy, broadening our offering into the fast-growing digital permanent recruitment market and complementing our professional recruitment businesses.
Alain Dehaze
Digital
Group
Strategy
Market
Our
Broadening
Recruitment
Development
Permanent
Offering
Acquisition
Businesses
Professional
Fast-Growing
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
Annie Lennox
Win
Too Much
Value
Too
Never
Prizes
Placed
Acquisition
Much
Certainly
The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
Baba Kalyani
You
People
Important
Ability
Part
Most
Important Part
Integrate
Any
The Most Important
Acquire
Acquisition
Your
Companies
Company
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
Barry Eisler
Great
Knowledge
Library
Writing
Better
Internet
Feeling
Nothing
About
Fingertips
Great Place
Limitless
Doing
Go
Than
Essence
Process
Place
Flavor
Acquisition
Your
Captures
Actually
Start
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
Benjamin Netanyahu
You
Would
Would-Be
Weapons
Costly
Scenario
More
Iranian
Than
Infinitely
Any
Stop
Acquisition
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Imagine
If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that people are culturally and philosophically aligned with the way that we approach the business.
Bobby Kotick
History
You
Business
People
Approach
Our
Philosophically
Way
Aligned
See
Look
Lot
The History Of
Acquisition
Reason
Company
Need
In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.
Brad Feld
World
Strategy
Consider
Least
Revenue
Historical
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Acquisition
Thing
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
Brian Acton
Best
Strategy
Every
Think
Follow
Lead
Listen
Different
Acquisition
Unique
Founders
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.
Brian Acton
Service
Building
Approval
Having
Magnified
Times
Stomach
Going
Process
While
Public
Scrutiny
Acquisition
Much
Means
Product
Regulatory
Necessarily
A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase.
Carol Loomis
Made
Pay
Those
Kind
Must
Purchase
Prices
Outside
Itself
Acquisition
Bargain
Special
Company
Compared
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
Charles Bass
Past
Military
Seven
More
Had
Over
Although
Quarter
Quarter Century
Been
Years
Targeted
Cox
Than
Committee
Chinese
Them
Century
Acquired
Acquisition
Many
Found
Technologies
Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
Chiang Kai-shek
War
Government
Time
Food
Important
Administration
Both
Supplies
Principle
Equity
Than
Essential
Acquisition
Less
Fundamental
Fundamental Principle
Applicable
Conscription
Phases
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.
David Novak
Destruction
Secular
Three
Jews
State
Has-Been
Citizenship
One-Third
Individual
Shaped
Israel
Been
Experiences
Modernity
Acquisition
Holocaust
Momentous
Largely
Founding
Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.
DeRay Mckesson
Heart
Learn
Acquisition
Really
Means
Skills
Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.
Dilip Shanghvi
You
Value
Potential
Shareholders
Merger
Look
Any
Whenever
Acquisition
Create
Your
I've successfully convinced others to let me redevelop the historic Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. I also led the acquisition of the iconic 800-acre Doral Resort & Spa from my hospital bed after giving birth to my daughter, Arabella.
Ivanka Trump
Me
Post
Old
Giving
Daughter
Avenue
Birth
Others
Resort
Post Office
Pennsylvania
Hospital
Also
Bed
Led
Historic
Office
After
Iconic
Acquisition
Convinced
Successfully
Washington
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.
Jane Austen
Life
Girl
First
Looking
Beauty
Has-Been
Pretty
Delight
Higher
Almost
Look
Been
Years
Than
Cradle
Plain
Fifteen
Acquisition
Who
Ever
Her
Receive
Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.
Jay Samit
You
Value
Faster
Incremental
Marketing
Cost
Costs
Segment
Beyond
Most
Identify
Goal
Targeted
Quickly
Gets
Any
Going
Customer
Customers
Acquiring
Acquisition
Lower
Your
Growth
Profitable
Associated
Core
We had staffed up to do 'Doom 4' internally in parallel with 'Rage'. We also had our mobile and 'Quake Live' departments. We were taking a lot of steps to kind of provide a little bit more scope and protection for ourselves. And we certainly were listening to offers from all the majors about acquisition.
John Carmack
Protection
Listening
Live
Rage
Our
Bit
Ourselves
Kind
Parallel
About
More
Had
Taking
Steps
Also
Majors
Were
Provide
Scope
Lot
Mobile
Up
Offers
Departments
Doom
Little
Little Bit
Acquisition
Certainly
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