Owners Quotes - Page 33

• The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Self, Views, Defense

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).

  Stephan Kinsella

  Party, Self, Acting

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

  Michael Strong

  Business, Passion, Creating

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• [In management] you're getting an opportunity to meet and speak with the GMs, assistant GMs, owners, governors - all the way up the line. It's a great opportunity to understand the league a little better and the challenges it faces.

  Chris Pronger

  Opportunity, League, Challenges

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Political

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Intellectual, Fields

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• Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Frustration, Garden, Design

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• A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

  John Abbott

  Gun, Encounters, Might

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• I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

  Tom Allen

  Land, Support, Generations

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• Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Land, People

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.437

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• In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

  Alison Weir

  Ideas, Church, Library

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• Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

  David Coleman

  Technology, Significant, Company

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• The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.

  Bobby Rahal

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

  Hugh Grant

  Boss, Quality, Slave

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• The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

  Michael Gerber

  Failure, Thinking, Insatiable Need

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• Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.

  Jon Porter

  Senior, Country, Cutting

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• Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

  John Gay

  Play, Jail, Mind

  John Gay (1808). “Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete”, p.107

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• Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.

  Duncan Hunter

  Jobs, Blue, White

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• Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Machines, Leisure

  "Speaking of Science", www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Believe, Animal, Tough Love

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Talks Beverly Hills Chihuahua". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. February 27, 2009.

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• You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours, what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

  David Duchovny

  Lines, Creator, Mines

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of guy who has a lot of money, whether they came by it as an actor or film-studio owner, and you realize these people aren't any smarter than you might be, or any more decent than you might be. It's just this weird fate of the world that it broke one way for someone.

  Steven Conrad

  Fate, People, Guy

  "The Promotion's Seann William Scott and Steve Conrad". Interview with David Wolinsky, film.avclub.com. June 9, 2008.

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• It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

  Zakk Wylde

  Team, Player, Would Be

  Source: www.guitarmessenger.com

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• Management creates an empowered state of mind in the organization by treating employees as part-owners of the business and expecting them to act like owners.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Organization, Mind, Management

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