Quotes About Ownership

'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.

Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

I've enjoyed being a baseball owner more because I've enjoyed owners being allowed to participate.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

Employees get things done. Partners get things done done. But owners get things done done done.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

I owned a few ladies' apparel brands, and one of my business partners is a very popular blogger in the U.S.

Bedroom Kandi is all about being your own boss, because it's a real partnership. Consultants start off making 40 percent of everything that they sell.

It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.

If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that's when I'm going to start to get really angry.

A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

But, if plenty for all is to become a reality, this immense capital — cities, houses, pastures, arable lands, factories, highways, education — must cease to be regarded as private property, for the monopolist to dispose of at his pleasure.