Quotes Tagged "ownership"

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we can’t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology — rigid and unyielding.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

Despite the illusions that I so readily embrace, whatever I hold can’t be held, for in time, time will steal it away. But time can’t hold God. Therefore, of all the things around me, my hands should be full of God and empty of everything else.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.

Own the moment or the moment will own you

An oil owner is someone who has claimed ownership of something that has been there for millions of years.

the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything’ll be okay, the fact that it’s like dogs marking their territory

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.

I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

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

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.