Quotes About Ownership

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Taking responsibility for situations, regardless of who caused them, always helps to expedite resolving

One side effect of having teams is there will always be things that fall through the cracks. Teams create territories.

The absence of dedicated quality assurance people made every employee accountable for quality, which is rare if there are many QA people around.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

Just because we like to drink doesn't mean we want to run the tavern

While filming "I am Legend", Will Smith got so attached to his co-star Abbey the German Shepherd, that he asked if he could keep her, but the owner refused.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Q: What do you call cheese that isn't yours? A: Nacho cheese.

An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings currently on display. "I've got good news and bad news," the owner replied. "The good news is that a gentleman inquired about your work and wondered if it would appreciate in value after your death. When I told him it would, he bought all ten of your paintings." "That's great! What's the bad news?" The gallery owner replied, "The guy was your doctor.

obvious reason: giving people extra money to buy a home just filters through the market and makes them all more expensive. The real winners of the first home buyer policies are people who already own

We can be whoever we want to be. We can make a new future now. If we make mistakes, at least those mistakes will be ours.

He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she'd had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned.

The church belongs to you, Jesus; she's your beloved bride. Yet, as with everything else, we often take the church into the idol factory of our hearts and retool her to be an ingrown club for our own satisfaction.

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior." (Isa. 43:1–3)

You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.