Top 100 Quotes About Owning
#1. If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andy Rooney
#2. Nothing says "you're a loser" more than owning a motivational poster about being a winner.
Justin Sewell
#3. If we want freedom from perfectionism, we have to make the long journey from "What will people think?" to "I am enough." That journey begins with shame resilience, self-compassion, and owning our stories.
Brene Brown
#4. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
#5. Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.
Tina Brown
#6. Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.
Esther Dyson
#7. When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.
Vandana Shiva
#8. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
Warren Farrell
#9. I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing ... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.
Lou Adler
#10. I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
Lillie Langtry
#11. Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.
Natalie S. Bober
#12. There's something really cathartic about that, about owning up to your truth.
Kevin Kwan
#13. She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.
Dorothy Koomson
#15. Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings, and that takes all of the fun out of the game.
Charlie Munger
#16. I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.
Enrique Penalosa
#17. There's nothing more powerful in "Your Moment of Truth" than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.
Lou Bergholz
#19. If you don't feel comfortable owning it, then don't say it.
Brene Brown
#20. Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering.
Judith Tarr
#21. Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
Peter Thiel
#22. Not one is dissatisfied ... not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not
Walt Whitman
#23. The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#24. Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.
Donald Trump
#25. I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.
Tom Golisano
#26. Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.
Taylor Mali
#27. It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
Helen Clark
#28. You never come closer to owning the whole world than when you wake up before everyone else. There
Asa Larsson
#29. To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.
Kenneth Fisher
#30. There's a reason publishers don't build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don't want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies.
John Battelle
#31. I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
Terry Pratchett
#32. Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
Charles A. Beard
#33. If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.
Al Ries
#34. The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.
Jay Parini
#35. I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
Karen Finerman
#36. It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.
Danielle Steel
#37. As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own ... There was no sense of a self owning them.
Tara Brach
#38. When I see someone from Beijing owning 50 houses in Auckland I don't think that's neo-racist
Winston Peters
#39. I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the 'A-Team' van or something.
Ernest Cline
#40. What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.
Francis Quarles
#41. I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses ... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
John Locke
#42. REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!
Tony Dovale
#43. Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their mother's overstuffed chair while she read to them, and they hung over the back of it, and they pinched and plucked at its plushy hide.
Marilynne Robinson
#44. There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
Erol Alkan
#46. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
Jessi Kirby
#47. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
Lloyd Dorfman
#49. The possibilities of migrating from an economy based on owning to one based on sharing are limitless.
Jay Samit
#50. If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
Desmond Tutu
#51. I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
Baz Luhrmann
#52. I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
Mara Brock Akil
#53. Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
Peter Lynch
#54. Forgiving is ... recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out ...
David W Augsburger
#55. Owning a dog is like having a demanding manner-less friend who never bathes themselves but which somehow ends up spending every single night on your couch.
Matte Resist
#56. No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
Will Rogers
#58. If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.
Michael Gurnow
#59. Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.
Dan Savage
#60. Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.
Gail Carriger
#61. I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
Nicole Scherzinger
#62. Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.
John C. Bogle
#63. In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.
Bernie Sanders
#65. Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed. The
Brandon Sanderson
#66. You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about owning the land. It is like talking about owning your grandmother - you can't own your grandmother. She just is your grandmother. Why would you talk about owning her?
Kent Nerburn
#67. Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
Jeff Cooper
#68. You can do almost anything if you put your mind to it. Be it the perfect murder, robbing a bank or owning your own company. I don't go along with Prince Charles' maxim that everyone should know their place and limitations.
Stephen Richards
#69. The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
Edmund Phelps
#70. Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.
Dave Barry
#71. Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.
Brene Brown
#72. If she[ ... ] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?
Annie Dillard
#73. Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.
Salma Hayek
#74. The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
Philip Roth
#75. The bitcoin world is this new ecosystem where it doesn't cost that much to start a new bitcoin company, it doesn't cost much to start owning bitcoin either, and it is a much more efficient way of moving money around the world.
Timothy C. Draper
#76. Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
Boris Johnson
#77. Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.
Frederick Lenz
#79. We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
Dorothy Day
#80. Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?
Max Lucado
#81. I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.
Khloe Kardashian
#82. I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.
Millard Drexler
#83. You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'
David LaChapelle
#84. Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
Barry Ritholtz
#86. Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Christian. That is not true. A Christian is one in whom Christ dwells, and the person's life will give evidence of this.
Billy Graham
#87. There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
Kenny Guinn
#88. Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
Oprah Winfrey
#89. What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
Anita Desai
#90. An Oxford degree or owning a successful business or a perfect looking body does NOT guarantee inner-happiness, peace of mind, self-love, and a loving relationship.
Maddy Malhotra
#92. I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
Billy Sherwood
#93. invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3
Benjamin Graham
#94. The battlefield of owning your dreams is won the moment you decide to conquer your fears.
Xavier Saer
#95. Owning her face, unapologetically, or - even more revolutionarily - happily was the bravest thing she could possibly do.
Georgia Clark
#96. I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
Clint Eastwood
#97. Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.
Meghan Daum
#98. The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#99. I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.
Kevin Systrom
#100. Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is
Sujit Lalwani
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