Quotes About Ownership

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's my baby at the end of the day.

There is a growing interest in team ownership and promoting sports beyond cricket in India. I always felt it is important to encourage other sports, especially those that bring communities together and promote active lifestyles to Indian youth.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

If not managed properly, owning a company and running a business with multiple locations can make you feel constantly overwhelmed.

I have a lot of natural gas on my properties.

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.

I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.

People form strong attachments to their properties.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.