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Quotes About Ownership

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men would still really like to own a train set.
~ Rita Rudner
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
~ Robert Jordan
When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.
~ Harold Geneen
Man loves most that which is his own.
~ Henry Adams
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.
~ Henry George
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.
~ Ilona Andrews
I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.
~ Jay-Z
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
~ Jessica Valenti
Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.
~ Jewel
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
~ John Norman
Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.
~ Rumi
This is your moment. Own it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
~ J. Paul Getty
The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.
~ Julius Malema
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?
~ John Wesley
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
~ Gautama Buddha
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
~ Billy Rose
Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
~ P. T. Barnum