Quotes About Ownership

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

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.

when everybody owns the challenge of generating results, very few stones get left unturned, and value is created at all levels.

Never complain about what you permit to be.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

You cannot be upset about results you don't have from work you didn't do.

You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

It may require courage to say what they said, but were they really able to take responsibility for the consequences?

Entrepreneurs juggle multiple responsibilities every day.

Collecting antiquities is to archeology as rape is to love.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Our Lord makes His disciple His very own possession, becoming responsible for him. "You shall be witnesses to Me" (Acts 1:8). The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The missionary's secret is truly being able to say, "I am His, and He is accomplishing His work and His purposes through me." Be

Never consider whether or not you are of use—but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His.

Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for him. "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me." The spirit that comes in is not that of doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The secret of the missionary is—I am His, and He is carrying out His enterprises through me.

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own