Quotes About Ownership

If you have a great strategy but overpay for a company, someone else's shareholders will see the benefits of your strategy, not yours.

Self-Blame and Other-Blame. You find fault in others or yourself instead of solving the problem or identifying the true causes of the problem.

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.

We live in a complicated and interdependent society; each of us is constantly affected by events thousands of miles away occurring to people he has never heard of. How, in such a society, can we meaningfully talk about each person being free to go his own way? The answer to this question lies in the concept of property rights.

the world might be better off if more people accepted responsibility and dealt with consequences. — Dave Drake david-drake.com

Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara, she complained. They're sitting one them. You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear. Won't that make them angry? Are you afraid of a chicken?

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

Because equity owners get paid after corporations satisfy all other claimants, equity ownership represents a residual interest. As such, stockholders occupy a riskier position than, say, corporate lenders who enjoy a superior position in a company's capital structure.

Feral hamsters are not pets. They mean business.

since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable—if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.

the boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did.

Perversamente, a menudo es más divertido querer algo que poseerlo

He knows, now, that nearly everything you call yours in the world can be taken away from you by other people, assuming that they want it enough.

Mais s'ils travaillent en s'appuyant sur la tradition intelligente, leur ouvrage sera l'expression de leur coopération harmonieuse et du plaisir qu'ils y ont pris. Aucune intelligence, même de la plus basse espèce qui soit, n'y a été écrasée ; au contraire, elle a été plutôt subordonnée et utilisée afin que personne, du maître au plus modeste ouvrier, ne puisse s'écrier : c'est mon oeuvre

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

Let every man be master of his time.

Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

A traveler. By my faith, you have great reason to be sad. I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's. Then to have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is dearly bought; 'tis mine, and I will have it.

are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?

Las aves domésticas se distinguen de las de corral en que las guardamos en jaulas exclusivamente para satisfacer el placer estético. El nuestro, claro. Del placer que sienten las aves condenadas a ver a sus dueños, no sé nada.