Quotes About Ownership

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

I am working with writers and producers to have a more proprietary relationship over shows, having more ownership and creative control.

Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

We need a basic protection for people having access to their data and knowing where their data is.

The owners need to have some protection against players jumping from team to team. The fans have the right to expect some continuity on the team they support from year to year.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

Whatever I am, you did it.

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. (201)

I had a dog—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away

I'm yours — you know it.

it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.

Tu orgullo es lo único que posees, y si dejas que lo manipule un hombre que tiene que manipular una docena de orgullos antes de almorzar, estás aceptando un montón de decepciones que un profesional hecho y derecho ha aprendido a evitar.

The top 10% of America owns almost 70% of the total wealth of the country—from houses and cars to stocks and bonds—while the bottom 50% own just 1.5%