Quotes About Ownership

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In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham's wife didn't like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespasser had once made a run at the sperm, only to be nipped by a family dog.

only too frequently, our metaphors are not our own.

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

Love me and the world is mine.

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are still not totally owning. . . . How can you be complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself ] until somebody else does something? . . . If it is conditional, it is not totally yours. —A. H. ALMAAS

Vilfredo Pareto's original study in 1906 found that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population.

me make it clear, if you buy an asset and it's costing you money to maintain it - it is not an investment! There

There are a large number of small to midsize businesses that generate impressive excess cash, most of them family owned businesses.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I think, How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.

Il progresso della crescita artistica in molti media viene rallentato, come quei poveri alberi sui rilievi alpini che possono crescere solo di pochi centimetri per qualche settimana all'anno. Per gli scrittori e gli artisti che sono cresciuti in mezzo a caterve di artefatti e frammenti culturali, tutto questo fa parte della loro vita, ma quasi tutto è off-limit sul piano dell'espressione artistica perché è di «proprietà» di qualcuno.

Religion does not own activism.

"Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

We cannot forget [for example] that one of the big war factories in Germany was the Opel Company which was owned and financed by the General Motors Corporation, a company in which Secretary Stettinius had a great interest.

The biggest electric company in Germany was owned and financed by the General Electric Company of New York.

To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth

the Indian "must be imbued with the exalting egotism of American civilization so that he will say 'I' instead of 'We,' and 'This is mine' instead of 'This is ours.

As of today, on Leech Lake, like many other reservations, the tribe owns roughly 4 percent of the land within the reservation boundaries. The rest of the land is divided among county, state, federal, corporate, and private owners.

Despite this series of missteps, this did not impact Apple's capability reputation – on the contrary, the company's reputation protected it from any fallout. Once you have won a reputation for a certain type of competence, in this case producing devices that everyone on the planet wants to own, it is hard to shake off.

Do they know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think its their own choice?

Do the bees know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think it is their own choice?

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.