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Quotes About Ownership

He only is rich who owns the day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
~ Nikola Tesla
Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.
~ Karim Rashid
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
~ John C. Maxwell
When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.
~ Byron Katie
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
~ Lillian Hellman
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
~ Brian Tracy
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
~ George Washington
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
~ Harry Browne
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
~ Henry Van Dyke
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
~ Saint Basil
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Accountability breeds response-ability.
~ Stephen Covey
Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
~ Chris Brogan
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
~ Epictetus
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.
~ David Cottrell
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
~ William James
The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
~ Mark Twain
It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.
~ Mitch Joel
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
~ Napoleon Hill