Quotes About Ownership

I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

I got my first handgun license when I was 22.

I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.

I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it.

I'm hands-on with everything. I approve the designs of everything we do because that's my brand that people are buying. I want it to look good.

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

Everything I've done that I'm proud of is everything I've been the most hands-on with, so I'm just following that, really.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

I feel so disassociated from my writing - whether it's in book form or magazine - that I sometimes have a hard time believing that it's mine.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.

When you face the shareholders, then you can feel the heat is on you. For 20 years I got to answer to my shareholders. It's not easy.

Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.

You should be held accountable for your actions.

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one day.

I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.