Quotes About Ownership

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece.

One doesn't remember one's own life chronologically, the way it happened, what was most important, or even what seemed most important. We are not in control of our memories. One doesn't own one's memories. One is owned by them.

Si en esta casa hubiera hierbas, ya te encargarías de traer a pastar las ovejas del vecindario.

To become rich you must be an owner. And you must try to own it all. You must strive with every fibre of your being, while recognising the idiocy of your behaviour, to own and retain control of as near to 100 per cent of any company as you can. If that is not possible, in a public company, for example, then you must be prepared to make yourself hated by those around you who are also trying to be rich. That is the dirty, rotten little secret of it all, my friend.

Because ownership isn't the important thing. If you want to be rich, it's the only thing. THE

To become rich, every single percentage point of anything you own is crucial. It is worth fighting for, tooth and claw. It is worth suing for. It is worth shouting and banging on the table for. It is worth begging for and grovelling for. It is worth lying and cheating for. In extremis, it is even worth negotiating for. Never,

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it. It's cheaper in the long run.

As an owner, or an owner in training, you must always be alert for the telltale signs that here is a candidate for promotion and delegation.

Never, never, never, never hand over a single share of anything you have acquired or created if you can help it. Nothing. Not one share. To no one. No matter what the reason – unless you genuinely have to. Do

Ownership is not the most important thing. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS. Nothing

If you haven't much skill, or much wit, or much talent, or much luck, and yet you insist on owning more than your fair share of any start-up or acquisition, then you can become rich. If you take what you're given, you will probably not get rich. Years

Absentee landlords never prosper. I am not absent. But I am not exactly toiling with the troops side by side, every minute of every day.

What do you want? What do you know about it? What are you talking about? Everything belongs to Him, just as I do. But I, I love Him. I worship Him, I serve Him. Do you think you can oppose Him, poor creatures like you? He's all-powerful. He's above all of you. Everything we have comes from Him. Everything that lives or grows comes from Him.

Averile nu te fac bogat, ci-Å£i sporesc grijile; nu te fac st?pân, ci v?taf. Mai mulÅ£i sunt cei st?pâniÅ£i de bog??ii, decât cei ce le st?pânesc.

Land distribution in Brazil is one of the most unfair in the world. One frequently cited statistic from the beginning of my presidency showed that 1 percent of the population controlled 45 percent of Brazil's arable land.

Pero por qué me preocupa a mí Colombia si ya no es mía, es ajena?

Bloody men. Think they've a God-given right to be better off than women. Work, marriage, divorce, the lot. They do less, get paid more and act like they own the place.

Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?

that belongs to her by divine right." I told her to repeat it continually also.

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it -- without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud -- to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.

it is well known that large numbers of poor people attribute their poverty to what they call the tyranny of capital; meaning thereby the unwillingness of the owners of capital to allow others to use it without security for its safe return and compensation for its use.

When a portion of wealth passes out of the hands of him who has acquired it, without his consent, and without compensation, to him who has not created it, whether by force or by artifice, I say that property is violated, that plunder is perpetrated.