Quotes About Ownership

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

My difficulties belong to me!

Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.

When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.

The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.

I'm always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their lives. There's something beautiful in the moments when characters disobey.

Responding to emails during off-work hours isn't the only area in which you need to set boundaries. You need to make the critical distinction between what belongs to your employer and what belongs to you and you only.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited.

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

But if you look at teams that want to share more revenues, they're teams that don't have a lot on the table. They've long since not had any serious investment in their team.