Quotes About Ownership

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I don't own anything designer.

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.

Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask questions about details that I haven't even thought about.

Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if it might be to his detriment.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

I couldn't afford to go to the record store to buy new tapes, so I'd tape everything off the radio. Just hit record when my song came on. I used to take my mom's tapes and tape over them. I had a nice little collection. Had my own Stephen Jackson mixtapes off the radio!

The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!

With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.

It's no easy task to coach the national team. I never realised to what extent one becomes the property of the people.

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.

I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor.

We believe in the individual. Government protects our rights as individuals and our rights as property owners. We come together as a community to ensure our protections and to ensure our individuals' security. That's where government comes in and why we pay taxes.

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.

If taxpayers' money goes into paying salaries and bearing expenses of Air India and other entities that require funding every year, then the government needs to evaluate if it can run them successfully or let someone else run it.

Some people get a kick out of Taylor Hicks being their landlord.