Quotes About Ownership

Excellent. Listen, do you like cats?" "I don't know. Why?" "I just had a thought. You might like having one. They're very independent, answer to no one, usually self-sufficient, sometimes affectionate, more often not, but... But they're company. There's something about being owned by one that fills the lonely space with a presence. And hair. Tons of hair. I have a cat. And a robo vac.

Acepta la responsabilidad de tus actos.

Jack just stood there, looking at Ian. He lifted one brow. "Your girl, huh?" he asked. "I was just talking to the kid," Ian said. "Uh-huh. You better head for home, pal.

like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

Accountability is a personal choice to rise above one's circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving Key Results: See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do It.

at AES, the builder and operator of electricity-producing cogeneration plants, CEO Roger Sant implemented a "they busters" campaign with all the necessary buttons, posters, and flyers to help workers stop blaming the elusive "they" who always seem to stifle results. "They" represent all the finger-pointing, denying, ignoring, pretending, and waiting habits that grow up in organizations and keep people from taking charge of their own destinies.

To get Above The Line, and out of the blame game, you must climb the Steps To Accountability by adopting See It, Own It, Solve It, Do It attitudes.

When you guide and don't tell, people may fail a bit more, but they will also grow more, learn more, have more ownership, and bring more results to the company table." Give

Developing a Culture of Accountability where people take ownership for achieving key organizational results requires a willingness to make the link between where you are and what you have done with where you want to be and what you are going to do to get there.

As accountability deepens and people move Above The Line within the organization, a shift occurs from "tell me what to do," to "here is what I am going to do, what do you think?"—a truly profound and empowering approach to getting results.

The message: Sometimes you must be willing to burn all your other ships and grasp the helm of the one under your command. Doing so can stimulate the conviction and create the ownership necessary to get started on a new program of action that will help you rise above your circumstances.

people must abandon the past-oriented, blame-centered who-done-it definition of accountability.

Accountability: "A personal choice to rise above one's circumstances and demonstrate the ownership necessary for achieving desired results—to See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do It.

from the willingness of an organization's people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.

Division of labor tends to bring with it a division of responsibility that can distance everyone from the one factor they all share: results.

the accountable person looks for every opportunity to self-report. They are eager to review progress; they aren't afraid of it. Before

We believe this spiraling lack of happiness today is simply due to a lack of accountability.

He who owns Books and loves them is wise.

From all your herds, a cup or two of milk, From all your granaries, a loaf of bread, In all your palace, only half a bed: Can man use more? And do you own the rest? —ANCIENT SANSKRIT POEM

I know it ain't none of my buisness, but does you own somethin that each one of them keys fits?I glanced at the keys; there were about ten of them. I suppose, I replied, not really ever having thought about it. Are you sure you own them, or does they own you

So you done worked all year and the Man ain't done nothin, but you still owe the Man. And wadn't nothin you could do but work his land for another year to pay off that debt What it come down to was: The Man didn't just own the land. He owned *you.* Got so there was a sayin that went like this: "An ought's an ought, a figger's a figger, all for the white man, none for the nigger.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

It's a gift. Never lend a book.