Thoughts on ownership

American journalist & commentator

Ownership is the only way to influence decisions—the right decisions.

—Geeta Gupta-Fisker

Co-founder & CFO, Fisker Inc

That’s what makes [the land] ours: Being born on it, working on it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.

—John Steinbeck

American author & Nobel laureate

We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not.

—Sarah M Broom

American writer

What you really value in life is ownership, not money. If ever there is a choice—more money or more responsibility—you must always opt for the latter.

—50 Cent

American rapper

When you own your story, you get to write

the ending.

— Brené Brown

American researcher & author

By what right can anyone whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say, ‘This is mine, not yours’?

—Pyotr Kropotkin

Russian revolutionary & economist

You can have it all, but don’t expect to have it at exactly the same time.

—Jane Fraser

CEO, Citigroup

The stupid mind thinks only in terms of possession. The man of insight thinks of utility.

—Osho

Spiritual leader

Once you have something—knowledge, skills, possessions—or have achieved something—climbing Mount Everest, for example—it becomes banal.

—Reinhold Messner

Italian mountaineer

To have so little, and it of so little value, is to be quaintly free.

—Wallace Stegner

American novelist