Quotes About Ownership

When citizens of Europe own the land and the mines of Africa, this is the most direct way of sucking the African continent. Under colonialism, the ownership was complete and backed by military domination.

However, it is very essential at this stage to draw a clear distinction between the capitalist countries and the socialist ones, because socialist countries have never at any time owned any part of the African continent nor do they invest in African economies in such a way as to expatriate profits from Africa.

No drone shall feed on my honeycomb.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market.

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

I like it when people say, 'Gee, that's a pretty good-looking painting.' But it's my painting, and when somebody says, 'Why don't you use more red instead of blue?' Good-bye. It's my painting. And I don't care what they sell it for. The painting itself will never be finished. That's one of the great things about it.

For Buffett, managers are stewards of shareholder capital. The best managers think like owners in making business decisions.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

For these investors, it would have been far better if Orville had failed to get off the ground at Kitty Hawk: The more the industry has grown, the worse the disaster for owners.

Regardless of the impact upon immediately reportable earnings, we would rather buy 10% of Wonderful Business T at X per share than 100% of T at 2x per share. Most corporate managers prefer just the reverse.

Productive assets such as farms, real estate and, yes, business ownership produce wealth — lots of it. Most owners of such properties will be rewarded. All that's required is the passage of time, an inner calm, ample diversification and a minimization of transactions and fees.

if we aren't happy owning a piece of that business with the Exchange closed, we're not happy owning it with the Exchange open.

Our managers are totally in charge of their personal schedules. Second, we give each a simple mission: Just run your business as if: (1) you own 100% of it; (2) it is the only asset in the world that you and your family have or will ever have; and (3) you can't sell or merge it for at least a century.

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

How many of us know that, because Christ is risen, we are therefore alive "unto God" and not unto ourselves? How many of us dare not use our time, or money, or talents as we would, because we realize they are the Lord's, not ours? How many of us have such a strong sense that we belong to Another that we dare not squander a shilling of our money, or an hour of our time, or any of our mental or physical powers?

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

Change your thinking, take responsibility for everything in your life.

You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life without any accompanying guilt.

The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, How long am I going to be dead? With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever.

Rather than helping children to think for themselves, solve their own problems and develop trust in themselves, parents tend to treat children as possessions.