The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.
You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.
Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.
Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
Once you win the Cup once, you feel like it's yours. You don't want to give it up.
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.
Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.
In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
I do not take anything for granted - I like to shoulder every responsibility.
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
I want to feel that I own things.
I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.
I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.
People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.
see the things that you want as already yours
If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.
Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.
I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."
