Quotes About Ownership

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.

Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present. By what right then can anyone whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say - This is mine, not yours?

All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth.

By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say--This is mine, not yours?

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

I'm sorry... but it's true?you can't live other people's lives for them. Go home and make something worth while of your own.

There are more ways of stealing than simply holding a gun to a man's head. Whenever and wherever by fraud, deception, or coercion we take from anyone what is rightfully their own, and which they have no desire to surrender, we have robbed them.

Never wear clothes that are bigger than you are unless you intend to grow into them. If you want to wear a great suit, either you believe it belongs to you or you'll look like you're thirteen and wearing your mother's clothes. Doesn't that make sense? It's the same in life. Never live a life too big for you. You either grow bigger to encompass it or shrink it to fit you.

Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Unless this boy is claimed by the one who gave him to me, I'll die rather than let anyone else take him away.

I WOULD ask for still more, if I had the sky with all its stars, and the world with its endless riches; but I would be content with the smallest corner of this earth if only she were mine

and I immediately felt guilty, while at the same time determined not to have something stolen from me... these two feelings, always coming in a pair...

I think someone just marked his territory.

Owning a token bestows a right that results in product usage, a governance action, a given contribution, voting, or plain access to the product or market.

It's up to all of us, the consumers, to take charge of our health. It's almost like voting. It's your responsibility.

Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD.

In the blockchain world, each user can and should own their data, and 'central' players are less vulnerable to data losses and breaches.

I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability for you and your family.

One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.