Quotes About Ownership

Brodsky knew in his heart that external events weren't really to blame, and he eventually forced himself to face up to the truth: He had single-handedly destroyed a solid, profitable business by putting it in harm's way. Without his decision to acquire Sky Courier, and to keep pouring cash into it, CitiPostal would not have been vulnerable to the events that brought it down.

It's far more difficult than most people realize to keep ownership and control inside a privately owned business as it grows, but unless you do you will wind up with a company driven not by your own aspirations but rather by the need to meet growth targets set by outsiders. Even if you succeed in retaining control, moreover, you still have to deal with a variety of forces pushing you to grow whether you want to or not.

It is this short-termism, lack of ownership vision, selfishness and greed that is undermining our capitalist system.

If you have to hold an employee accountable, replace that employee with a better one who takes responsibility so you don't have to.

Decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame…you alone are responsible for the quality of it.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologizes or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

Non-possession" does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

Important, too, is the pride we feel in the well-exercised body. "The fuller sense of self we have," Young once told an interviewer, "the more responsibility we take for it.

neither the church nor the state opposed the enslavement of blacks. Religious organizations such as the Benedictines even became large-scale slave owners.

Taking responsibility means a person no longer blames outside circumstances, or other people, or past events for the conditions of his own life.

One of these games is called, "Okay, okay, I'm guilty." This game is to make it look like you have taken responsibility for yourself when you haven't. Admitting you are guilty is a great way to avoid being responsible.

Bezos ultimately concluded that if Amazon was to continue to thrive as a bookseller in a new digital age, it must own the e-book business in the same way that Apple controlled the music business. "It is far better to cannibalize yourself than have someone else do it," said Diego Piacentini

obsessão pelo cliente; simplicidade; propensão à ação; propriedade; e padrões elevados de talento.

Most importantly, Bezos didn't penalize Ian Freed and other Fire Phone managers, sending a strong message inside Amazon that taking risks was rewarded—especially if the entire debacle was primarily his own fault.

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That's just it." "What?" "The phone." "What about it?" "It wasn't hers.

Driver had his own rules of war, and he tried to teach them to me. You know, when you clean a weapon the first rule is always clear the chamber. Not Driver. His first rule was always check to make sure it's your weapon, so you don't end up cleaning somebody else's weapon.

What you have been given by your heavenly Father is yours to use, not abuse.

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.

get your stinkin' carcass off my property.

He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem.