Quotes About Ownership

Since he also had a sizable stake in U.S. government bonds, he felt he could play the market with impunity.

Junior would have inherited both the controversy and the legal liability that went with the stock.

In absorbing competitors, Rockefeller was equally secretive and asked them to continue operating under their original names and not divulge their Standard Oil ownership.

I do not know of any firm to suggest at the moment, but why not run them ourselves?

Pierpont handled the West Shore affair better than I could have done it myself.

Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Ten bucks a day, just for clothes, made no sense at all until you figured a washing machine cost four hundred and a dryer another three and the basement to put them in implied a house which cost at least a hundred grand to buy and then tens of thousands a year in taxes and maintenance and insurance and associated bullshit. Then ten bucks a day for clothes suddenly made all the sense in the world.

Why me? Why didn't you do it?" "Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?

Ryantown ain't yours.

I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first.

Great Dane the size of a pony, and a girl with a rat terrier the size of the Great Dane's head. Overall I preferred the rat terrier. Small dog, big personality. The little guy thought he was boss of the world.

But this guy was five years too old for that. And behind his greeting he had a proprietorial air. He was saying welcome, for sure, but to my house. Like he owned the place.

Why don't you live anywhere?" "Do you have a house?" "Of course." "Is it a pure unalloyed pleasure?" "Not entirely." "So there's your answer.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Contrary to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property—so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Colui che più possiede, è colui che più ha paura di perdere.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; 'there's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– "The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream