Quotes About Ownership

Professional developers do not prevent others from working in the code. They do not build walls of ownership around code. Rather, they work with each other on as much of the system as they can. They learn from each other by working with each other on other parts of the system.

Remember, as a software developer, you are a stakeholder. You have a stake in the software that you need to safeguard. That's part of your role, and part of your duty. And it's a big part of why you were hired.

Our employment contract made it clear that anything we invented belonged to our company. My boss told me: "You sold it to us for one dollar, and we didn't pay you that dollar.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

Nunca haga lo que otros pueden hacer por usted.

Excuses satisfy no one and apologies make everyone uncomfortable. The mistake does not vanish with an apology; it deepens and festers. Better to cut it off instantly, distract attention from yourself, and focus attention on a convenient scapegoat before people have time to ponder your responsibility or your possible incompetence.

People rarely believe that their problems arise from their own misdeeds and stupidity. Someone or something out there is to blame-the other, the world, the gods- and so salvation comes from the outside as well.

I know that I am free because I alone am responsible for everything that I do.

I really didn't mean to steal it. Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. Why not? That's what they're there for. Tunes belong to everybody. So do stories.

Menos de dos horas después de llegar, ya sabía que iba a quedarme. No porque me sintiera parte del lugar, aunque así era, sino porque aquel lugar me pertenecía. No en el sentido mercenario de la propiedad, sino porque la casa y sus alrededores habían compartido su vida conmigo.

He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

A drum with no head," Easar said softly, flicking his horse's reins. "A pump with no grip. A song with no voice. Still it is mine. Still it is mine.

cuando echas a andar tu propio negocio con base en casa, muchos de los gastos que antes eran personales –gastos después de impuestos–, se convierten de inmediato en gastos de negocio antes de impuesto.

la mayoría de los empleados y los autoempleados trabajan para conseguir dinero. Nosotros, como inversionistas en bienes raíces, estábamos en el lado de los Dueños de negocios y de los Inversionistas profesionales en el cuadrante, y por eso buscábamos activos que produjeran flujo de efectivo.

But it was her fudge and I let her cook it.

Yeah, we all hated the Nazis, and if anybody didn't, he kept his fool mouth shut about it. Because if you lived in Flatbush, you were surrounded by Jews. And Jews, having paid the price in blood, now owned the Nazis outright, and we could do anything we wanted to them.

Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Then, it was factories and production, and America rose to dominance. The industrialist owned the wealth. Today, it is information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

Financial struggle is often directly the result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.

They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich.

Start minding your own business. Keep your daytime job, but start buying real assets, not liabilities.