Quotes About Ownership

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.

The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.

I was stupid when I started: the epitome of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It was like, 'I get to live in L.A. and drive around in limos? Really?' I didn't realize I was owned. The more money gets pumped into you, the more you become a marionette. It made me a true redneck in attitude: I never wanted to wake up ever again feeling owned.

I ask myself, 'Why can't a truck driver have the right to carry a gun?' Just think about it; put yourself in the shoes of a truck driver. He nods off at the petrol station... and when he wakes up the next day, his spare tyre has gone.

You can't walk into Wal-Mart and just walk out with a TV - you can't just download a TV. So don't go and download the Jadakiss album without paying for it. It cost money to make that album, dude.

I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

My whole break-up with Amanda Holden was in the papers for three years and my dogs were photographed being taken for walks more than any in Britain. They're two Cairn terriers. I don't have them now, though, she has them.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

It's hard when you're writing for someone else. You obviously always want to do your best work, but sometimes you write and have a song idea and you're like, 'Oh, it's so good I want to keep it for us.'

Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

I don't even own a bike.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

At one point, I had close to 100 birds.

When I was playing Bishop, I would always walk on set thinking, 'This is my show; this is a show all about me.'

If the world misunderstands us, then I don't blame others, it's our problem.

I'm not the kind of guy who will blame other people if things don't work out.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.