Best 180 quotes in «ownership quotes» category

When people see their influence in a shared vision of the future, they become owners.

When you earn your freedom, make decisions wisely in order to pursue economic and social success in the long run.

When you pay rent, you are paying for permission to be on a piece of land that predates the landlord by billions of years.

Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

You’ll blame your conditions, others will blame your decisions.

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here, only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces. The men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels. There you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit, because our men and women are free possessing nothing. They are free. And you, the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail, each alone, solitary with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes, the wall, the wall.

You don't think I could bring myself to mark your lovely skin? I'll take my knife to you, if that's the case. I'll carve my name in your breast so that every beat of your heart will remind you that you are mine—and mine alone. Because blood is binding, and because I would rather see you destroyed than see you free or in the possession of another, so I suggest you not try me, or you will suffer as no earthly creature has.” He slammed her back against the wall. “Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.

You know, I've often wondered why I'd lose passion so quickly after declaring my undying love for my woman. And then it hit me, it's the FULL OWNERSHIP MENTALITY that spoils everything.

You will learn about the twinned natures of fate and faith, at times spun together in threads fine as cotton candy, that taste just as sweet and evaporate just as quick. It is not right to say that you will have her, because you cannot truly possess another person. Nor should you even want such a thing.

From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which were aimed at changing the very, very dehumanising aspects. Giving greater freedom of movement, giving private property ownership within so-called white South Africa also to blacks. Abolishing the concept of job reservation on the basis of race and colour. Allowing free organisation for trade unions, also black trade unions.

Airport take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at the expense of exploiting airlines through higher charges

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.

If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me.

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.

I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'