Quotes About Ownership

Every commonwealth being, as we have said, a partnership, it follows, that in every commonwealth men must be partners in some things or in all. Some things they must possess in common, since the community could not otherwise subsist.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!

After that, I never went to a competition to compete. I went to win. Even though I didn't win every time, that was my mind-set. I became a total animal. If you tuned into my thoughts before a competition, you would hear something like: "I deserve that pedestal, I own it, and the sea ought to part for me. Just get out of the fucking way, I'm on a mission. So just step aside and gimme the trophy.

I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems.

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Quit being 'busy' and start actively owning and operating your company, and you'll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.

Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.

I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.

I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail.

I own a company called Rain Industries.

Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.

I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.

I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.