Quotes About Ownership

I couldn't take that whole retail thing of being polite to people that are not being polite to you, and showing respect to people when they've got no respect for you. Retail in general is something I just can't do, unless it's my own shop.

Labour and land are always politically sensitive.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

My pops got his own coffee company. My pop distributes coffee.

I think my passion is really more towards older cars, but I think if I said Ferrari or something like that, Id say their brands are really it. Whether its cars I own, probably Ferrari F40 or Porsche Carrera GT.

Ive never been one for having a huge number of fast cars. The fastest one I ever had was a Porsche 911 and I never really drove it.

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

I think working so hard in Portland to earn the right to have it be my team and to have my own team over the years and try to play at a high level, that was hard-earned.

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

I bought some land in Portugal, on the highest hill in Guimaraes, because I pictured that I wanted to build my house there. I said, 'What a perfect place this would be,' but I forgot to ask the council if I could build a house there. When I did, they said, 'No!'

The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.

China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

I take care of my positions when they come.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Nobody owns the money he/she possesses. They hold it just as a trustee.