Quotes About Ownership

If you cannot harness the discipline needed to take control over your own life then you deserve everything that happens in your life and you forfeit the right to cry, complain and make excuses for why you are not where you want to be, have what you feel you should have and be who you want to be. As if you cannot work hard to improve yourself and your life what makes you think anyone will want to come be a part of your life if you don't care why should they

A Savvy Turtle investor trains their occupants to do everything from paying rent on time, upkeep, scheduled maintenance, self-betterment etc

The capital requirements for life as a forager were minimal. A few primitive tools and weapons sufficed. There was no outlet for investment, not even private property in land, except occasionally in quarries where flint or soapstone was mined.8 As anthropologist Susan Ailing Gregg wrote in Foragers and Farmers, "Ownership of and access to resources" was "held in common by the group.

The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.

When weapons or tools of production can be effectively hoarded or monopolized, they tend to centralize power.

This false belief that we own the Earth, or are its stewards, allow us to pay lip service to environmental to environmental policies and programmes but to continue with business as usual.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

When the slave auctioneer asked him what he was skilled at, Diogenes said "At governing people," and, pointing to a well-dressed buyer, he said "Sell me to that man, for he wants a master.

Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.

That of which we are not aware, owns us.

An experience is something that is constructed in the mind of the perceiver. It's not something an organization owns. To map experiences, investigation into those experiences from the perspective of the individual is necessary.

A winning organization is an environment of personal and professional development, in which each individual takes responsibility and shares ownership. It

Leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating ownership, accountability and trust.

There is a certain way of climbing inside of time that gives a man ownership of the world and everything in it. Like, for instance, when you hear a jukebox it plays only what you need to hear.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

When you give people a choice about being a part of what's happening, they're more likely to be committed to a project. Is there a piece of something you are working on that you could open up to others? It

The upper South, like the lower, went to war to defend the freedom of white men to own slaves and to take them into the territories as they saw fit, lest these white men be enslaved by Black Republicans who threatened to deprive them of these liberties.

Remember, it's not "stand firm for the faith" but "stand firm in the faith." You've got to own it and live it.

Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions." No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad

Often we are tempted to think that loving someone—a spouse, a boyfriend or girlfriend, or even just a friend— means clinging to them, which is a subtle form of ownership. But love means embracing the poverty of not owning the other. So chastity might be able to teach the world about a free way to love and a loving way to be free.

Infidel leaned over and picked up the Gloryhammer. She slung it over her shoulder. "This is mine now." "Really?" asked Zetetic. "What gives you a claim to it?" "The fact that I'll flatten anyone who tries to take it from me." "I find your reasoning quite persuasive," said Zetetic. Infidel's