Ownership Quotes

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.

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.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

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.

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

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.

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.

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.

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

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.

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.

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

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?

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

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.