Ownership Quotes - page 2

Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it. (Bill Mollison)
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms. View quote
Václav Klaus
From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country. View quote
Peter Drucker
The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Quasi-integration is to use debt or equity investments and other means to create alliances between vertically related firms without full ownership. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft. View quote
Simon Sinek
It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership. View quote
Suze Orman
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. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. View quote
Edmund Phelps
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. (Jerzy Kosinski)
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation. View quote
Barbara Castle
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Creativity's about ownership. View quote
John Maeda
I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving. View quote
Mia Farrow
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes. View quote
Bethany McLean
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. View quote
Byron Dorgan
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership. View quote
Chris Chocola
By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be. View quote
Chris Chocola
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased. (Cliff Stearns)
We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs. View quote
Eckhard Pfeiffer
It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something. View quote
Fran Kranz
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. View quote
Howard Rheingold
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed. View quote
John C. Malone