Quotes About Ownership

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

I have a big scar in my thigh from a dog bite by my German shepherd. His name was Ripper. He was trying to get in a fight with another dog, and I tried to break it up, and he got me pretty good.

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

That's the true meaning of being a leader: being able to deal with the consequences and take the responsibility for it. That's who I want to be.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

It's hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt.

I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.

I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

I don't have a car and have decided never to own one.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

I have been captain for my Delhi team.

I had this when I was 17 years old - a 1969 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with no backseat. I paid 150 bucks for it, I think, rode it for a good six months, and put four or five quarts of oil a week in it.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

Americans don't want to see our military become Republican or Democrat. Americans appreciate that our military belongs to all of us.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.