Quotes About Ownership

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

The land belongs to the people who work it.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

In our good works nothing is our own.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.