Owners Quotes - Page 2

• I've never wanted to be the boss.

  Harrison Ford

  Boss, Wanted

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• When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

  Julius Erving

  Running, Strong, Player

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• As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Motor Racing, Boss, Individual

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• Justice delayed is justice denied.

  William E. Gladstone

  Law, Justice, Fairness

  Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.

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

  Christopher Darden

  Compassion, Law, Justice

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• Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Cat, Independent

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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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• 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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• I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

  Davy Jones

  Couple, Years, Challenges

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• Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, People, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

  Michael Jordan

  Nba, Careers, Goal

  "N.B.A. Board Approves Jordan’s Purchase of the Bobcats" by Richard Sandomir, www.nytimes.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Work, Struggle

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

  Michael Jordan

  Running, Winning, Mirrors

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• May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

  Mwai Kibaki

  Country, Hard Work, Justice

  Mwai Kibaki (2003). “Building a working nation: speeches by H.E. President Mwai Kibaki : December 2002 - July 2003”

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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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• 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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• The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Forever, Gone

  "Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 01, 2012.

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• The more laws, the less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Law

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• There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Effort, Trying, Technique

  "Peace netter". Interview with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.

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• No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sick, Pet, Literature

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

  Kim Campbell

  Equality, Justice, Tolerance

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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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• Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

  Jan Brewer

  Gun, Ninety Nine, People

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