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Creativity's about ownership. -- John Maeda
I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made. -- Jon Runyan
Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development. -- James Wolfensohn
Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy. -- Prince
We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. -- George Steinbrenner
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. -- Toni Morrison
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). -- O. Henry
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them. -- Walter Benjamin
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served. -- Vaclav Havel
Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power. -- Louis D. Brandeis
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. -- Barbara de Angelis
Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage. -- Kevin Shields
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. -- Christopher Lasch
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society. -- Hilaire Belloc
Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success. -- Ali Babacan
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually. -- John Carroll
Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP. -- Ronald Reagan
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. -- Byron Dorgan
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. -- Amiri Baraka
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. -- Christopher Lasch
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. -- John Locke
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. -- Jack Kemp
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life. -- Deepak Chopra
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
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection. -- Annabelle Selldorf
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
When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not. -- Mark Cuban
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. -- Andy Grove
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. -- Charles Dudley Warner
It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back. -- Laszlo Bock
When you hit send on a text or tweet, you lose ownership of it - but you don't lose responsibility. Every text you have sent may have been saved and could be out there waiting to be used in ways you didn't imagine. Even the most simple of posts can be used out of context, often unintentionally, and change your future. -- Mark Cuban
Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community. -- Rick Renzi
It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership. -- Suze Orman
The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character. -- Romola Garai
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. -- Jerzy Kosinski
When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership. -- Troy Brown
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. -- Barton Gellman
In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera. -- Henry Cloud
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
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
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. -- Henry Louis Gates
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
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. -- Howard Rheingold
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 key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
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. -- Simon Sinek
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. -- Brene Brown
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. -- James Surowiecki
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership papers that Jonathan Ross once owned it. My friends slated me for it because of the colour, but it was cool. My father used to ride, and my mother's boyfriend has a bike, so we're a bit of a biker family. -- Thomas Sangster
Claim ownership of your dreams -- Chris Gardner
Whiteness is ownership of the earth. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
True ownership of anything requires time ... -- Barbara Holland
Who has ownership over stories these days? -- Rutina Wesley
Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership -- Lisa Gansky
People are not things, you cannot have ownership. -- Rajneesh
There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. -- LeeAnn Taylor
I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life. -- Amber Heard
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. -- William James
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate -- John Ashcroft
The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership. -- Ted Cruz
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology -- Michael Foot
People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy. -- Stan Shih
The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear. -- Art Modell
We must give the American worker the first option of ownership. -- Jesse Jackson
The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand. -- William Stafford
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance. -- James Surowiecki
Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless. -- Erik Qualman
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation. -- Barbara Castle
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation. -- Barbara Castle
Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic. -- Sonia Choquette
The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism. -- Erich Fromm
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness. -- Sean Stephenson
Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership. -- Jeffrey Skilling
Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems. -- Robert Ringer
Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets -- Tom Peters
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. -- Ambrose Bierce
Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause. -- Shantideva
And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership. -- Chris Chocola
Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement. -- Greg Gutfeld
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership. -- Neil Kinnock
If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there. -- Peter Block
There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love. -- Max Frisch
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Have the courage to take ownership of your life by making your own decisions. -- Ken Poirot
You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. -- Rick Smolan
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. -- Gautama Buddha
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental. -- Barney Frank
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. -- Yukio Mishima
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking. -- Jose Saramago
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work. -- Daniel Yankelovich
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. -- Edmund Phelps
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. -- Rick Renzi
When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen. -- Paul Budnitz
Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score. -- Sam Walton
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you. -- Mia Wasikowska
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income -- Roy Jenkins
Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me. -- Ryan Seacrest
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership. -- Pope Pius XI
I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting. -- Steve Kerr
We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership. -- Jim Ratcliffe
The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward. -- John C. Bogle
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. -- Vladimir Lenin
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership. -- Marco Arment
During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison. -- Anatoly Chubais
The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press. -- Nat Hentoff
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people. -- John C. Maxwell
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. -- Neil Abercrombie
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this? -- Cecily Brown
Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure. -- Lisa McMann
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. -- Peter Lynch
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom -- Alfred Jarry

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