Quotes About Ownership

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

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.

Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

Those who know me are aware that I stand by my mistakes or non-working strategies.

I don't think LVMH will want to significantly change the strategy of Loro Piana, and I don't think that they would have bought it otherwise.

In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.

My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.