Quotes About Ownership

Effective leaders are skilled at asking carefully worded questions, guiding people to greater understanding of issues and problems until appropriate solutions become obvious. By guiding people to think things through for themselves, the (Socratic) leader encourages shared pride and ownership of the solutions generated.

The richest 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent.177

I really have a nice step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.

That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.

Imagine how profoundly trustworthy you would be to the people who work for you if they felt no problem could arise between you that you were not prepared to own. Imagine how much incentive they would have to cooperate if they knew they could count on you to clear the pathways for accomplishment.

My petunias," she tells me in a flat voice, "are none of your business.

We looked out over the lake. The sun was shards of brilliance. 'It's a poem out there,' I said for some reason. 'You should write it, Tookie. It's yours.

We're from here," said Thomas. He thought awhile, drank some tea. "Think about this. If we Indians had picked up and gone over there and killed most of you and took over your land, what about that? Say you had a big farm in England. We camp there and kick you off. What do you say?

Marshall vested absolute title to the land in the government and gave Indians nothing more than the right of occupancy, a right that could be taken away at any time.

As with most other reservations, the government policy of attempting to excite pride in private ownership by doling parcels of land to individual Ojibwe flopped miserably and provided a feast of acquisition for hopeful farmers and surrounding entrepreneurs.

People still lived on the margins of the land they had owned.

You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent … In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay …

On ne perd pas grand-chose quand brûle la maison du propriétaire. Il en viendra toujours un autre, si ce n'est pas toujours le même, Allemand ou Français, ou Anglais ou Chinois, pour présenter, n'est-ce pas, sa quittance à l'occasion... En marks ou francs ? Du moment qu'il faut payer...

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

Dizer que a minha liberdade termina onde começa a liberdade do outro é muito bonito. Mas e se a liberdade foi mal distribuída e o meu vizinho tem um latifúndio de liberdade enquanto a minha é um quintal de liberdade, liberdade mesmo que tadinha? Não é feio sugerir um reestudo da divisão.

a feud over who was to own the poet: in the first instance, who was to have the right to publish her works; in the second, whose legend would imprint itself on the public mind.

all words, scenes and claims of participants in the feud are documented in source notes. Though the feud began with adultery, Emily Dickinson became its focus after her death, each side battling for her unpublished papers. The issue was not so much money as the right to own the poet—the right to say who she was.

In the 1880s the focus of the feud had been adultery; in the 1890s the focus shifted to the divided treasure the poet had left behind. Who had the right to possess her? Who had the right to say what she was?

Annabel better not have headed back to England. He'd wring her bloody neck if she had. She was his. And why the hell would she go there anyway? Surely life with him was better than life with those two coldhearted English— "Nay.

When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up to hold out their plates: the squabble over Truck and the Device was nothing more than a polite difference as to who should have the largest slice.

When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up afterward to hold out their plates: the squabble over Truck and the Device was nothing more than a polite difference between friends as to who should have the largest slice

All crimes," she remembered him advising, "are crimes against continuity—continuity of life, continuity of ownership, systems continuity.

no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.