Quotes About Ownership

I was once told I am being Arrogant as an Author just because I legally protect my books with copyrighting them and trademarking my titles and names. That's not being Arrogant. It's about being Smart. I went to law school And I'm married to a lawyer. It's ingrained in me to fight the sh*t out of protecting what is mine even if it is perceived as "arrogant". I'd rather be arrogant than stupid. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

If a man is to die defending a field, let the field be his field, the land his land, the people his people.

Men of means have much to fear. Those with none know only bitterness. If you entrust yourself to the care of others you will be owned by them. If you care for others you will be enslaved by your own solicitude. If you conform to the world it will bind you hand and foot. If you do not, then it will think you mad. And so the question, where should we live? And how? Where to find a place to rest a while? And how to bring even short-lived peace to our hearts?

But only if after you kill me, You eat my dead body... Cook me for a day and night... Make me into stew. Afterwards, suck my bones clean. When my entire body has been eaten by you, I can finally become your blood and flesh. Then... I will belong entirely to you...

independent of the parent. He belongs to Nature. He does not belong to the Parent. Every parent is a surrogate. Nature uses the parent to bear the child. But it does not grant her ownership of him.

the most beautiful thing about tango is that it doesn't belong to anyone. It doesn't, but we'd like it to. We'd like to own it, each of us individually. We are all fiercely territorial about it. By being here despite the pain of it, we're saying: I'm holding my ground...

Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

One rule we have at my house is, be proud of what we invest in.

I chose to invest everything in my own private companies.

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

Second homes are an investment.

There's no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

I do think that impact investing is not that effective. Shares go from investor A to investor B, and the company doesn't even know it. It's inevitably an ineffective way to communicate to the company your feelings.

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

Everything you see on my channel was made by me - no one else was involved.

We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible.