Quotes About Ownership

All my achievements - even if they may seem small - are mine. No one has contributed to them.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

I can speak for my own actions.

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

If I brought another car home, there would be problems. I have a lot of cars as it is. I'm a car addict.

When you make a mistake, you have to admit it.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

The only real goal I had was, I wanted to own a car. Because my father, most of the time, he couldn't afford a car. Once in a while he would have a car, but it would be 10 or 15 years old, an old jalopy.

When I work on someone else's record, I'm happy to alter the way I approach it, if I happen to like who they are and I'm interested in their music. But I know it's their record.

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.

If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

If anyone is on my husband's arm, it's going to be me.

El genio no dependía más que de sí mismo, era el único juez de los medios de que se valía, porque solo él conocía el fin que se proponía: debía, por tanto, situarse por encima de las leyes, porque estaba llamado a rehacerlas; por otra parte, quien señorea su siglo puede tomarlo todo, arriesgarlo todo, ya que todo le pertenece.

Sharpe had owned forty-three enslaved Black folks, but had caught religion during a sermon by a Great Awakening minister. After hearing the sermon, Edward Sharpe had decided he was against slavery. But instead of freeing the Black folks he owned and giving them a plot of land to work, he'd sold them for a profit, and bought land and started a university with the proceeds.

objects that he very rarely either looked at or thought about, though the loss of them would have caused him to go half mad with rage and chagrin.

Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

As they multiplied, they split their tracts amongst their sons.13 These lots (named because each son picked a lot to see which swatch of terra firma would be his) grew smaller, so small that their owners were gradually impoverished.

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read . A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.