Quotes About Ownership

I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.

The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.

I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

Apparently it's acceptable for members of Congress to own stock in companies we regulate in Congress, but somehow, our plumbing company crosses some line.

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.

Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

I have no idea what stocks I held in the '90s, in the 2000s, or even now.

When I worked on 'The Daily Show,' we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine.

Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

This country was created from stolen land and stolen labor. And from a moral perspective, but also from a practical one, everybody knows that when you steal, you're always looking over your shoulder because you know that somebody may steal it back.

I took five hit records to Memphis, and '634-5789' was stolen from me totally. Those songs are worth millions. I've never understood how someone could just steal your song like that.