Quotes About Ownership

Like our home, this is a place that he has no right, but ultimately every right, to occupy.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

He turned to stare down at his latte, wiping hard at his cheeks as the tears started to fall. He didn't push away the pain. It was his and he would own it. He wouldn't bury it again.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

Once you have a trust, you must decide what assets to put inside the trust. This is called funding the trust, and it requires changing the title of ownership of that asset to the trust. Common assets that you will want to consider owning inside the trust include any real estate you own, and bank and investment accounts that are not retirement accounts.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth…both financial affluence and emotional security

I'm going to use my good old suitcase metaphor one more time: A mutual fund is like a suitcase that holds dozens—and often hundreds—of individual stocks. If you like what is packed inside the suitcase, then you simply purchase shares of that mutual fund and, voilà, you are the proud owner of a small fraction of each one of the holdings in that suitcase. This gives you instant diversification, even though you bought just one mutual fund.

Accelerating your mortgage payments is something to be considered only if you are in good financial shape. That means: • You have an eight-month emergency savings fund. • You do not have any credit card debt. • You own your car outright, and you are saving for when you will need to purchase another car.

we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ...

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

But especially in America when you've got four people in a room and they do a songwriting day, well one of them might literally just come up with one line but they get 25% of the song.

Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They're not for sale.

If you make a mistake at work, address it as soon as possible - don't hide it.

Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.'

The easiest thing to say is, 'I'm sorry.' We don't do that.

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

The first I bought were records. I don't know which was first, but I feel like it was the same day. It was 'The Muppet Show' soundtrack and Queen's first album, because it was the only one my brother didn't have.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.