Quotes About Ownership

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen.

I bought the rights to 'Ready, Steady, Go!' several years ago because I didn't want the segments to be chopped up and sold off. I thought the shows should be left intact.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

I'm very protective of my material. And you have to be, because it's very easy for people just to steal jokes.

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

If you want something, and you want it, you shouldn't just go and steal it.

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

What I like about land is I can drive out and check on it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's hard to steal land.

If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

I'm not in favor of stealing music.

If we're not doing better, it's almost always our own inability to execute, not because someone else is stealing our market share or something.

I've been arrested for 'stealing' my own car, only to be released.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I think that is what the electorate is looking for - they are not looking for a pretty face to lead the country. They are looking for someone who can give them hope, who can promise them change and who can tell them this is your hands and you have the ownership of how you want to steer the country forward.

We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

I knew a gentleman who was 65 who had a consulting firm outside of Kansas City, Mo. I convinced him to sell me the business, which did auditing and reviewing of freight bill charges, for nothing down. It was a step out of working in this bureaucratic setting of corporate America and going out on my own in 1984.

We need to have more women founders stepping up to kind of own their own story and ask for what they want and tell success stories and start really building confidence that these stories are out there.

Like a film, dance steps or sequences are creative works. If a script can have a copyright, and so can songs, why can't dance sequences as well?

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.