Top 100 Quotes About Owning
#1. Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.
Jeremy Clarkson
#2. The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.
Tom McClintock
#3. You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
Bernie Sanders
#4. The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.
Malcolm Forbes
#5. The minimalist path is not about getting rid of everything and owning nothing, it is about living an integrated life in which everything has meaning and value because it is about your way of being.
Ela Garrison
#6. When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
Gore Vidal
#7. I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.
Jeff Greene
#8. If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad
Smedley Butler
#9. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it : it is yours. So with me : I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#10. Both of them are overjoyed to see me, which is one of the best parts of owning a dog. Unconditional love and enthusiasm, even when you don't deserve it.
Karina Halle
#11. God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.
Orrin Woodward
#12. Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. You were able to kill him," Will said. You, a girl. That's what he meant. Like owning a vagina made me inferior in some fundamental way.
Laura Thalassa
#14. You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.
Andy Stanley
#15. As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury
#16. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman
#17. I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.
Roman Abramovich
#18. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.
Bill Burr
#19. It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
Seth Godin
#20. Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
Warren Farrell
#21. He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
Orison Swett Marden
#22. Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
Warren Stephens
#23. If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
Warren Buffett
#24. The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.
Charles R. Schwab
#25. I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
Lisa Unger
#26. If you don't want your past to own you, try owning your past.
Dan Pearce
#27. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
#28. In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the "gun culture" if you will.
Massad Ayoob
#29. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare
#30. Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits
Jared Diamond
#31. Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#33. As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.
Erin O'Connor
#34. I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.
Art Wolfe
#35. For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.
Solomon Ortiz
#36. 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?
Jeremy Paxman
#38. We need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.
Rafe Martin
#39. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.
Daniel Kahneman
#40. In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.
Zach Condon
#41. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
Umair Haque
#42. Brian: I love books
Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?
David Nicholls
#43. Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.
Marilyn Monroe
#44. I think that you are an uptight, pony-owning, trickle-down-economics-loving, Scotch-on-the-rocks-drinking, my-wife-better-take-my-last-name sexist jerk!
Julie James
#45. As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.
Ashley Purdy
#46. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.
Doug Aitken
#47. You're allowed to practice humility while also owning your greatness. Don't you dare minimize your greatness.
Erica Alex
#48. 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.
Richard J. Foster
#49. I'm not saying that owning a house makes life into some kind of blissful paradise; simply that it makes the difference between freedom and enslavement.
Tana French
#50. 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
Eddi Reader
#51. Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.
Clement Freud
#52. When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do.
Drishti Bablani
#53. Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
John Cage
#54. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.
J.D. Roth
#55. Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.
Tina Brown
#56. In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes [ ... ], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not owning to some blessed pill or potion [ ... ] or at least without our knowing that the loving hand of despair slipped us the drug.
Vladimir Nabokov
#57. Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.
Willard Scott
#58. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.
George Lucas
#59. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.
Anne Perry
#60. For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.
Lynn Jurich
#61. connections, so part of my transformation was owning and celebrating
Brene Brown
#62. Agent Julianne was always looking for ways to spin things. She would have been better off owning a laundromat.
Jonas Eriksson
#63. I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
Janet Fitch
#64. Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
Donald Trump
#65. Owning cool or expensive BDSM gear doesn't necessarily make him a good Top,
Michael Makai
#66. You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.
Steve Wozniak
#67. You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
Benjamin Franklin
#68. Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more."
That's me! And you, probably! That's us!
Nick Hornby
#69. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
John Tesh
#70. I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
Tamala Jones
#71. What good was owning the world when he'd have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he'd rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.' (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.
Chuck Palahniuk
#73. Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.
Meghan Trainor
#74. Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
Carol Roth
#75. It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
Calvin Coolidge
#76. Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
Jacob Hacker
#77. Owning a hundred slum properties wasn't a crime, although living in one was, almost. Being
Terry Pratchett
#78. She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn't enough. Controlling her didn't douse the inferno blazing inside me.
A. Zavarelli
#79. You are aware that a healthy portion of the vagina-owning population wants to do you? Don't even get me started about the penis-wielding people, because there's quite a few of them into you as well.
Kylie Scott
#80. He should have recognized that what really fascinated him was the hunt, the adventure of searching out his victims. And, to a degree, possessing them physically, as one would possess a potted plant, a painting or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.
Ted Bundy
#81. A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
Frances Beinecke
#82. In February 2000, hedge-fund manager James J. Cramer proclaimed that Internet-related companies "are the only ones worth owning right now." These "winners of the new world," as he called them, "are the only ones that are going higher consistently in good days and bad.
Benjamin Graham
#83. I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.
Chuck Hogan
#84. It's amazing to me that owning your own computer was considered impossible.
Randy Wigginton
#85. The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
John Steinbeck
#86. Reinventing yourself and becoming someone else is simple. Owning who you are, that's the hard thing,
Sabrina Paige
#87. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
Lisa Kleypas
#88. It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control.
Charlie Munger
#89. Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.
Janet Reno
#90. Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated by guns since I was a little kid, and I want to play with them. It seems like a lot of fun.
Jonathan Gottschall
#91. A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory ... dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.
Rumer Godden
#92. What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more."
Jack Canfield
#93. Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.
Chris Van Hollen
#94. Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
Charles Petzold
#95. What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'
Nobu Matsuhisa
#96. The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden
#97. I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.
Kristin Cast
#98. Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.
Jeremiah Seed
#99. In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.
Ingrid Betancourt
#100. The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.
Hayley Kiyoko
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