128 Ownership Quotes
Following is our list of ownership quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about ownership and control.
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Famous Ownership Quotes
Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy. — Prince
You must own equity to gain your financial freedom. — Naval Ravikant
Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community. — Rick Renzi
The future is your property. You own it. You can do anything you want with it. — Dan Sullivan
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned. — Bob Goff
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. — John Lennon
The real owners of the land are not yet born. — American Proverbs
The possession of anything begins in the mind. — Bruce Lee
... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — Karl Marx
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security. — Suze Orman
Know what you own, and know why you own it. — Peter Lynch
You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam? — Ben Feldman
Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you. — Vijay Kedia
Short Ownership Quotes
- Do not give power to your excuses. Own your circumstances, because no one else will. — Alex Hormozi
- This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. — Byron Dorgan
- I've been a big advocate of adopt-don't-shop. — Joe Gatto
- I own 'The New York Observer'. — Jared Kushner
- Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.' — Max Keiser
- Extreme ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame. — Jocko Willink
- Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day. — Rory Vaden
- When you screw with somebody's sense of ownership of something, that's when they react. — James Murray
- If you blame others for your misfortunes, you won't be rich. Take ownership of yourself. — Changpeng Zhao
- I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything. — Mihai Eminescu
Taking Ownership Quotes
Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing. — Asher Roth
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. — Andrea Dworkin
Bitcoin is the most difficult property that the human race possesses or has yet invented to confiscate…I literally have to crack your head open and read your mind to take it…It’s harder to take than every other thing you might own. In fact, it’s exponentially harder. — Michael Saylor
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. — Jocko Willink
People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car? — Tucker Carlson
Show me an organization in which employees take ownership, and I will show you one that beats its competitors. — Michael Abrashoff
World Mobile doesn’t take value from its customers, it gives value to its customers by giving them part-ownership of the network itself. — Micky Watkins
Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems. — Robert Ringer
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live? — Karen Duffy
Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness. — Sean Stephenson
Ownership And Control Quotes
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. — Bernie Sanders
If you can’t control your money, then it’s not your money. Only self-custodied Bitcoin is under the full control of its owners: it is unseizable, unfreezable, and unstoppable. — Robert Breedlove
Once you start blaming others, you’re admitting you had no control over the situation. And without that control, you can’t create a solution. — Tim Grover
Entities I control have now acquired 111,000 BTC and have not sold a single satoshi. Bitcoin Forever. — Michael Saylor
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions. — Stefan Molyneux
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. — Roger Nash Baldwin
They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible. — Dave Kopel
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. — Ambrose Bierce
I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet. — James Larkin
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. — Chris Chocola
Home Ownership Quotes
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them. — Mortimer Zuckerman
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. — Leonard Boswell
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was. — Mortimer Zuckerman
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. — Alphonso Jackson
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
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom — Alfred Jarry
The American Dream is ownership a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business — Mario Batali
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes. — Bethany McLean
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. — Major Owens
How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it. — Rush Limbaugh
Property Ownership Quotes
I further promise you, that all my wealth and property will be in Pakistan. I will take ownership of this country and won't be like those leaders who create hideouts abroad — Imran Khan
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. — Jack Kemp
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation. — Ronald Reagan
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. — William James
The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. — Henry George
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property. — Ludwig von Mises
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power. — Mahatma Gandhi
It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy. — Ronald Reagan
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership. — Marco Arment
Ownership Of Land Quotes
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. — Neil Abercrombie
You can securely control neither your land nor your digitally centralized financial assets without the help of government. Thus the locality & importance of legal ownership in these things. You can securely control your globally seamless Bitcoin without the help of government. — Nick Szabo
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. — Hugo Chavez
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership. — Joseph Stalin
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. — Henry George
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs. — Stewart Udall
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled. — Douglas MacArthur
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. — William Graham Sumner
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy. — Jessica Mitford
Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise. — Mark Mason
Self Ownership Quotes
My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others. — Ken Schoolland
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life. — Deepak Chopra
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership. — William Kittredge
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. — Toni Morrison
Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self. — Bryant H. McGill
People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy. — Becky G
We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage. — Mark Udall
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. — Yukio Mishima
People Writing About Ownership
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Prince |
182 | 16465 |
 Naval Ravikant |
583 | 1 |
 Rick Renzi |
16 | 262 |
 Dan Sullivan |
52 | 1 |
 Bob Goff |
183 | 1831 |
 John Lennon |
617 | 9452 |
More Ownership Quotes
Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! — T. D. Jakes
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love. — Ajahn Brahm
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen. — Ban Ki-moon
The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned. — Dave Ramsey
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness. — Brennan Manning
Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon
Cleaner’s attitude can be summed up in three words: I own this. He walks in with confidence and leaves with results. A Cleaner has the guts and the vision to steer everything to his advantage. — Tim Grover
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must build a high-level socialist market economic system, adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system, unswervingly consolidate and develop the public ownership system, unswervingly encourage and support the development of the privately owned economy, give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, and give better play to the role of the government. — Xi Jinping
All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility. — Peter Block
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same. — Haruki Murakami
I know that stocks represent fractional ownership in businesses and that, over time, the stock market will reflect their true intrinsic values. And crises bring worries and fears that make many investors forget that simple fact. — Francois Rochon
No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production. — Deng Xiaoping
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. — Bill Rancic
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. — Peter Lynch
You will own Bitcoin and you will be happy. — Michael Saylor
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite. — George Washington
I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals. — Gary L. Francione
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