Byron Dorgan
Politician
"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
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Ownership
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Jerry Lewis
Comedian, Actor, Singer
"The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose."
Gabrielle Bernstein
Author, Speaker
"The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends."
Cecily Brown
Artist
"I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?"
Chris Gardner
Entrepreneur
"Claim ownership of your dreams"
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"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."
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"If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million."
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"A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price."
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"Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise."
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"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"
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"I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean."
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"I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it."
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"Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking."
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"I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental."
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"The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism."
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"Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership."
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"Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive."
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