Owners Quotes

• I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

  Melissa Bean

  Mom, Jobs, Husband

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Dog, Cat

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• If we own the story then we can write the ending.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fear, People, Worry

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• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  Aaron Levie

  Pride, Thinking, Organization

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• Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

  Bob Goff

  Way, Ownership, Feels

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

  Eli Broad

  Thinking, Debt, Corporations

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• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

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• Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

  Kim Campbell

  Equality, Justice, Tolerance

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• Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

  Elias Canetti

  Should Have, Justice, Literature

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

  John Bunyan

  Doubt, Despair, Castles

  John Bunyan, William Mason (of Rotherithe.) (1814). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts”, p.127

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• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, New York, Winning

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• Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, People, Boss

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• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiring, Music, Wise

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• The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

  Christopher Darden

  Compassion, Law, Justice

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• Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence agencies, arms companies, big foreign money, are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, Media, Arms

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

  Yogi Berra

  Player, Giving, Ems

  "Yogi Berra: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Fighting, Justice, Pakistan

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• In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

  Tony Blair

  Downing Street, Boss, Prime

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• I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thinking

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