Quotes About Ownership

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they have more to do with it; it's their "baby" kind of thing.

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

As long as you try your best, you are never a failure. That is, unless you blame others.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

Remember who you are and whose you are.

Never fall in love with a broken heart. It's still in pieces and some of them belong to someone else, so you won't have it completely.

You never loved me, you loved the control you had over me and my emotions...when I took back the key to my heart, you went looking for it like you remembered the last place you set it and no one would be able to move it.

I do not like being ignored when someone has my things!

Every woman deserves to have a man who is proudly willing to say the whole world YEAH, she is my one and only. She is beautiful and she is MINE.