Quotes About Ownership

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

It's your money. You paid for it.

Is that your hat or are you wearing a cabana?

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.

Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more difficult for anybody to be able to purchase handguns.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded.