ownership quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have 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.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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

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

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

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

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

Property is organized robbery.

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

Every summer’s mine.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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