ownership

No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.