Possessions. The very word is potent – suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed. – Hamish Bowles
Fans don’t like owners. They know they are somewhere – actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don’t sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back. – Hasso Plattner
Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex. – Hari Kunzru
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance. – James Surowiecki
I’m interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail. – Jeremy Corbyn
You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation. – Barbara Castle
Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. – Alexander Dubcek
Fannie Mae has traditionally only bought and sold mortgages. But when a loan held by the company goes into foreclosure, Fannie Mae gains ownership of the underlying property until it is resold to new investors. – Charles Duhigg
Why do investors seem to care about ‘billion dollar exits?’ Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies. – Aileen Lee
I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I’m also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their… benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile. – Andrew Forrest
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. – Noam Chomsky
Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. – Edmund Phelps
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. – Neil Abercrombie
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. – Nick Harkaway
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. – Michael Bergdahl
The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise. – Jerry Reinsdorf
All throughout filming ’12 Years a Slave,’ there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all. – Lupita Nyong’o
To the extent that ’60s guys own things, yes… but I don’t have the publishing, just like most ’60s guys, and that was an error, you know… part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. – John Sebastian
We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise. – Jean Charest
I don’t look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. – Kin Hubbard
The advent of digitally enhancing images – and the fact that actresses weren’t protesting against that – created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses. – Romola Garai
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). – O. Henry
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations. – Rick Renzi
