Quotes About Ownership

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

It's important to drive your own ship, and it's your career, so you might as well take it by the reins.

I guess when you're holding the creative reins, you can be across everything, and it's more authentic. You can control it.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

I'm never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it's to buy goods or develop other companies. You don't have money; you have companies. That's one business model. That's mine. And I only associate with other people that are putting up their own money, 'cause they're the only ones that can relate.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.

I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

Especially in hip-hop, no one takes responsibility for their actions.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out.

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.

STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.