Quotes About Ownership

Even though brands are created by people, they belong to the corporations.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

With everything I do, I'm 100 percent involved. I don't really let anyone just take over and hear what's going to go on. I like to have full creative control, pretty much, and really be involved with everything.

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

I like to take credit for the work that I have done.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it.

With a game, you're only one part of a team, and what emerges at launch is very much the culmination of the whole team's efforts. You can be proud of playing your part, but it doesn't ever belong to you.

We don't want to damage cars. People work hard and save money to buy these things.

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.

Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.

I love a nicely designed paper comic but I don't need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If I can get that on a tablet and not have another pile of paper under my coffee table, then I will opt for digital.

The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.

Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

We're past the idea of putting price tags on things. We're going to put a price tag on access to things.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New York, trying to buy up the cultural places, who shall remain nameless. Well, there's a lot of brothers - pick any two. Pin the tail on the... they want to buy up stuff and steer the country a certain way.

I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.