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Quotes About Ownership

I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good. They fit into a handbag and can be carried around and opened at will. They don't change. They are what they are and nothing else. One day I want to own a lot of books and have them nbear to me in my house, so that I can stroll to my bookshelves and choose what I fancy. I want a harem. I shall keep my favourites by my bed.
~ Sue Townsend
mats perfectly picks up the color of the chairs?" "Honey, it's my restaurant. I'm the one who
~ Sujata Massey
I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven
~ Sun Myung Moon
For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you.
~ Susan Cooper
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
~ Eduardo Galeano
To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.
~ Annalee Newitz
One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
~ Adam Dell
Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?
~ Ken Mehlman
I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.
~ Evangelos Venizelos
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
~ Frederick Pollock
As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
~ Barry Silbert
We bought a sofa with the money I made from 'Thunderbirds,' and I've still got it, and we call it Thunderbird 1. That's literally all I got out of the job.
~ Nicola Walker
I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.
~ John Sulston
Since he sold his team, Eddie Jordan has had nothing to do with F1 except for what he says in the press!
~ Felipe Massa
I bought a white Panamera - and then sold it because I had no use for it.
~ Danielle Bregoli
Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.
~ Anand Mahindra
I already own two houses - one in Malad and another in Thane - but I sold off the Thane apartment and bought one in Bandra, because it was convenient and larger than my other homes.
~ Daisy Shah
We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.
~ Adi Godrej
I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
~ James MacArthur
I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.
~ Jeffrey Skilling
I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.
~ Dianna Agron
Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank.
~ Nick Hanauer
I couldn't stand not controlling my own product from how it's manufactured to how it's sold.
~ Mickey Drexler
I've definitely sold some Twitter shares. I don't own as many as I used to, because I'm not an idiot, but I own more than I should because I'm an idiot.
~ Chris Sacca