Quotes About Ownership

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.

Pero, al mismo tiempo, cuando cada persona se siente al mando, aun a escala local o temporal, esa persona toma en serio su responsabilidad. Esa persona es "dueña" de su trabajo, o de una parte del parque o de la situación. Y eso la hace preocuparse y tomar en serio el bienestar del invitado. Así es exactamente como se sienten los integrantes del reparto.

Ownership of the standard should be in the hands of those who do the work.

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

It makes no sense to have oil if to get it out you have to let the multinationals come and take it.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.

I was running the show on 'United States of Tara' and 'How To Make It In America' where I could say, 'Okay, I'm in charge of everything now.' But it still wasn't my show.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I bought a 1200-year-old Viking bracelet once.

It's one of the things, certainly for me, anyway: I'm learning to take a bigger role in the things that I'm associated with.

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

On one level, all of the characters in 'Game of Thrones' grow out of George R.R. Martin's imagination. Therefore they are his. As long as they are in the novels they are his. But the moment they step forth onto the TV screen, they become filtered through the showrunners. In a business sense, it's the same way with comics.

I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it's something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter.

Whether it's a car or boat or motorcycle, it's a dangerous item, so you have to show a level of competence and get a license before you're allowed to operate something that's dangerous. Guns are dangerous but you don't have to get a license to operate guns.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

When I'm in the huddle, it is my huddle, and I mean, that's how it needs to operate.

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it