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Quotes About Ownership

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
~ Warren Buffett
If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!
~ Michael Gerber
Buy a business, don't rent stocks.
~ Warren Buffett
We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.
~ Warren Buffett
I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.
~ Mark Neumann
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
~ Benjamin Graham
Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
~ Andy Grove
It's a privilege and not a right to own a business.
~ Marcus Lemonis
I don't see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
~ Elizabeth Arden
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
~ Izaak Walton
Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.
~ Benjamin Graham
When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .
~ Donna Karan
I've said many times that I'd be thrilled to sell the airline to the employees and our guys said no, we'll take all the money, anyway.
~ Robert Crandall
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.
~ Jupiter Hammon
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.
~ Chris Guillebeau
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
~ Bill Veeck
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
~ David Neeleman
You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.
~ Warren Buffett
My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and hes really good.
~ Amy Sedaris
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.
~ Drake