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Quotes About Ownership

I'm the football manager of Newcastle, which is owned by Mike Ashley.
~ Alan Pardew
No former player has owned a team in baseball.
~ Derek Jeter
A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.
~ Maz Jobrani
Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
~ Adam Neumann
I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well.
~ Joan Rivers
My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.
~ Andrew Cherng
America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.
~ Amanda Seales
I don't want to be owned by anyone.
~ Lena Headey
One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
~ Danny Meyer
My family never owned a home. We leased.
~ Aaron Paul
People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.
~ Patrick M. Byrne
I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.
~ Molly Ivins
I owned a '70 Camaro for many years, which I loved.
~ George Pelecanos
Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.
~ Peter Jackson
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
~ Ellen Goodman
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
~ Dan Savage
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
~ Ted Nugent
Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.
~ Orson Bean
I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
~ Jenifer Lewis
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
~ Annie Lennox
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.
~ Steve Berry
Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
~ Oscar Isaac
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
~ Noel Gallagher
I've owned mopeds in the past.
~ Brett Dalton