Quotes About Ownership

La griffe is the pattern of one's walk around the city on a shopping day. Strictly speaking, it means "claw," or the mark made by talons scratching a tree, but in practice it's one's signature, the mark that signifies ownership of a territory.

Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have.

One's death is already one's own. It belongs to nobody else: not even to a killer. This means that it is already part of one's life.

Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas.

He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison.

Every dog has one free bite. A dog cannot be presumed to be vicious until he has proved that he is by biting someone.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

When people point fingers at someone else, they should remember that three fingers are pointing back at them.

Your index fund should not be your manager's cash cow. It should be your own cash cow.

Graham's timeless lesson for the intelligent investor, as valid today as when he prescribed it in his first edition, is clear: "the real money in investment will have to be made—as most of it has been made in the past—not out of buying and selling but of owning and holding securities, receiving interest and dividends and increases in value." His

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

The second kind you make yourself. Most people, most of their lives, most of their problems, they simply invite into their lives, sweep out a guestroom for each pain, and give it free lodging and board.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

If we are not our own, but the Lord's, it is clear to what purpose all our deeds must be directed. We are not our own, therefore neither our reason nor our will should guide us in our thoughts and actions. We are not our own, therefore we should not seek what is only expedient to the flesh. We are not our own, therefore let us forget ourselves and our own interests in as far as possible.

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

Era um desses instrumentos de bom tamanho, que seus proprietários governam melhor do que aqueles pesadões e excessivos.

Could we make it our own, there would be an eternally inexhaustible earth and a forever lasting peace.

you had to be reasonably wealthy and privileged to choose not to own stuff. He

A veces necesitamos nuestro dolor. Lo necesitamos para considerarlo nuestro.