237 Quotes About Ownership

Remember that you own what happened to you.

If you tell me before, it's a reason. If you tell me after, it's an excuse.

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

It is very protective of me. But certain sorts of protection, even care, can shade into a sort of desire for ownership. Certainly into a feeling that what is being protected is an earned exclusivity of access for the protector, not the privacy of the protected.

Until every team member views the company as an interdependent enterprise, you will never have an owner company.

Private property does not discriminate. It torments even those who own property.