Quotes About Ownership

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

Know what you own, and know why you own it

Here are some pointers from this section: • Understand the nature of the companies you own and the specific reasons for holding the stock. ("It is really going up!" doesn't count.) • By putting your stocks into categories you'll have a better idea of what to expect from them.

A person who owns property and has a stake in the enterprise is likely to work harder and feel happier and do a better job than a person who doesn

Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!" Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?" -Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.

playing at the entrance of the hut. "Whose children are these?" he asked.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Pensar sobre a roupa, sobre roupas, significa pensar sobre memória, mas também sobre poder e posse.

Ich glaube, das ist es, was ich an Büchern immer gemocht habe. Dass sie unabänderlich sind. Man muss sie gar nicht lesen. Es reicht, sie zu besitzen, sie in die Hand zu nehmen und zu wissen, dass sie immer so bleiben, wie sie sind.

If the stuff you own is not helping you create the life you want, then let it go.

Don't let your stuff be a battlefield for your relationships. Instead of focusing on whose mess it is, think of it as a group problem that you're going to solve together. Don't use words like "yours" and "mine." Talk about the clutter and challenges surrounding it as "ours.

Freedom you do not steal, freedom you have to have whole.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.

Excuse me? Those are my fun-sized mobile agony and death dispensers. They're works of art! You can break your own stuff, thank you very much.

I'm serious. Mess with me and your shoes are mine .

His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.

The Ownership Quotient

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Hey!" he said. "That's one of my best shirts!" "So?" she replied without looking up. "It's one of my best legs.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

On sent que cela monte, que l'explosion de colère est proche. Il dit qu'il n'admet pas l'emploi du « on ». Quoi ? « On » va guérir ? Qui ? Elle ? Elle est malade ? C'est quoi ce besoin biscornu de s'approprier un mal qui n'est pas le sien, dont elle ne sait rien ou presque, dont elle ne mourra pas ?