Quotes About Ownership

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, 'I almost didn't recognize you without a hat on', I could have bought the Cowboys myself.

Having witnessed the success of Acadian Ambulance firsthand over the years, I became a champion for the employee stock ownership plan business model. This was easy to do based on the evidence that employee stock ownership plans are reliable, high-performing sources of retirement security.

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

We all have things in our lives that are terrible: you apologize for them; you wish you never had you name on it. But 'Teen Wolf' is something that I'm very proud of.

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve.

I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?