Ownership Quotes

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems there's not enow quarters to go around. But don't you-none o' you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it without hard knocks. What children learns from children, is that there's no sense grabbin' at th' whole orange-peel an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips, an' them's too bitter to eat.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

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.

All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.

Let those possess the land, and only those,Who love it with a love so strong and stupidThat they may be abused and taken advantage ofAnd made fun of by business, law, and art.

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

He who owns little is little owned.

Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.

I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

I get the Reese's candy bar. You look at that, there's an apostrophe-s there. That means the candy bar is his. I didn't know that. Next time you're eating a Reese's candy bar, and a guy named Reese comes by and says, "Gimme that", you better hand it over.

I don't see why the likes o' theeWithout axin' leave should go makin' freeWith the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;So hand the old bone over!Rover! Trover!Though dead he be, it belongs to he;So hand the old bnone over!

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.