I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

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.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Every summer’s mine.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pages, not the back pages. In time, it’s possible that your company will stand out from the crowd, and you’ll be successful.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

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.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

When you say ‚control freak‘ and ‚OCD‘ and ‚organized,‘ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.