Quotes About Ownership

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

You have my soul and I have your money

If you don't master money, it's going to master you.

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.