Quotes About Ownership

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.

We must realize also that our so-called possessions are just toys which have been lent to us to play with for a little while. A

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I couldn't keep a dog and a James Joyce and a bookshop.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

There is no such thing as a really rich victim.

Robert Allen said something quite profound: "No thought lives in your head rent-free.