Quotes About Ownership

A part of all I earn is mine to keep.

And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too

It is less, less than we wanted it to be, and yet it's more, too—it's small and a bit pathetic, judged against the work of the great masters, but there it is, all ours.

That thing in my box? he said. Has nothing to do with me.

Forbes had fully invested herself in her sentences. She had made them her own, agreed to live or die by them, taken total responsibility for them. How had she done this? I didn't know. But I do now: she'd revised them.

Afterward Freddie takes us to Trabanti's for lunch. Last year Trabanti died and three Vietnamese families went in together and bought the place, and it still serves pasta and pizza and the big oil of Trabanti is still on the wall but now from the kitchen comes this very pretty Vietnamese music and the food is somehow better.

Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Kesilen ka??t elden ç?kar?lmad?kça, kavalye kupadan üstün deÄŸildir.

She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.

Believe me, it is quite unnecessary! I neither know nor care what it cost to redeem Lufra—and if you badger me on this very boring matter I shall not invite you to go with me when I try out my new team!" There was a moment's tense silence; then Jessamy raised his eyes, no longer glowing, but uncomfortably austere. "Very well, sir," he said quietly. "Will you tell me, if you please, what I owe you?" "No, young Stiff-rump! I will not!

As I told the Sergeant, I never sold my pups to non-shooting homes. It would have been like selling a favourite daughter into a harem. A dog is happiest doing what it is bred for, and very few breeds were intended to be pets.

But if some idiot hadn't made that hole it would be worth two hundred and fifty dollars. Yes, sir, no fooling! It's very rare." Mr. Alden said, "Yes, I know. That's why I wear it. I was the idiot who made that hole." "Sorry!" said Mr. Willet with a wink. "Didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.

I have worked out that I am virtually Chinese, because everything I own is from China.

From when we were about seven we worked in our family store during the holidays. My father said it was important that we know where our money came from.

America should be about owning a piece of the rock, about letting every worker have equity and share in the returns to capital.

Increased public ownership of the economy should be structured to create more worker self-management and control.

I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don't always have to be the worker bee.

There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

I would like all newspapers to become workers' co-operatives.