Quotes About Ownership

Treat your property as you would have your tenants treat it.

The reaction to his funeral, in 1923, was more about the future than the past. New issues of securities of industrial companies would increase from 690 during the year after Harding's death to nearly 2,000 in 1929.1 Brokers' loans to investors and share ownership would quadruple by 1929.2 The number of Americans who paid tax on income of a million dollars a year also would quadruple.3

The sale would be treated as a transfer, merely part of a complex financing. Banamex's 20 percent ownership of the Bermuda company would allow it to avoid recognizing a sale, and Banamex could "sell" 80 percent of its Ajustabonos without generating the accounting loss it had feared.

church may be a son-of-a-bitch, but it's my son-of-a-bitch!

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

Most people also think that the I.R.S. is a governmental agency, but it is not. It is privately owned and has no organizational or legal ties to the US Treasury Department.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

It's a basic, intuitive right, worthy of enshrinement: Citizens, not the corporations that stealthily track them, should own their own data.

Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.

The land belongs to those who work it.

This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission.

Perdican era el fruto de las entrañas de Rosette, que era de mi propiedad, así que me correspondía a mí tomar la decisión. A la fuerza, voté por la muerte (...) Tenía la sensación de estar traicionando a mi primer amigo del alma.

Clinton admired Zatko's cowboy boots, hoisted his own snakeskins onto his desk, and disclosed that he owned boots made of every mammal on the planet. ("Don't tell the liberals," he whispered.)

Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it.

He is rich who owes nothing.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Bezos invested tens of millions of Amazon's cash in a variety of dot-com hopefuls, including Pets.com, Gear.com, Wineshopper.com, Greenlight.com, Homegrocer.com, and the urban delivery service Kozmo.com. In exchange for its cash, Amazon took a minority ownership position and a seat on the board for each, and the company believed it was well positioned for the future if those product categories succeeded on the Internet.

They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.

To really know for absolute certain that you could never blame anyone else for anything is difficult.

According to Buddhist philosophy, nothing ever really belongs to you. Even so, you can still give stuff away.