Quotes About Ownership

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

Why buy a home with your own hard-earned money when you can use somebody else's?

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing. 

We love our excuses. They are just as much our babies as our ideas are.

When you don't choose, you excuse.

But this is also the vortex on which we have the option to turn pro. It is where we own our idea machine power.

Even if you aren't an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

Whose little boy are you?

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

It doesn't do any good to blame people or the time-- one is oneself all those people. We are the time.

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise.

It is very frightening to belong to somebody.

retired into that strong self-pity which was, perhaps, the only thing he had which really belonged to him

who was saying that no people in history had ever been respected who had not owned their land. And the table said, "Yes, that's right." I could not deny the truth of this statement.

Avoid matrix structures. In an attempt to have the best of both worlds, some companies make the mistake of creating matrix organizations. Don't do this. Matrix structures remove the fire of personal ownership, not to mention accountability.

This brings us to a central truth about organizations: they are inherently messy. There are no panaceas, no structures that solve all problems. Any attempts to completely eliminate the mess are doomed to failure. Yes, there are costly inefficiencies in decentralization, but the fire of personal ownership—of being our own little business—elevates human motivation and stimulates innovation in powerful, albeit somewhat chaotic, ways.

Telling a farmer only that he is leasing twenty acres of land is about as helpful as telling a scholar that he has bought six kilograms of books.

Universal last names are a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Tracking property ownership and inheritance, collecting taxes, maintaining court records, performing police work, conscripting soldiers, and controlling epidemics were all made immeasurably easier by the clarity of full names and, increasingly, fixed addresses.

The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink, breath, and walk - and therefore each has a right to his share of earth.

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

If there is one thing worse for a manager than having an interfering owner it is uncertainty over the ownership.