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We have a big problem with pension funds saying we believe in engagement, not divestment, but there’s no sign of this engagement, the very act of owning them (oil sands companies) implies the funds do not support transition. – Adam Scott	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It’s never going to be easy. Through being accountable and owning your own journey and sharing what you can go though you can help other people, that’s why I came clean, I could have sat here and nobody would know. – Kelly Osbourne	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. – Jackson Browne	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
There has never been anything like this at the presidential level because no President has insisted on owning a commercial enterprise at the same time they have existed as President, everyone in America is financially struggling, and he has this fail-safe method to minimize any struggling by his commercial properties by channeling other people's money to it. – Fred Wertheimer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Owning a business is a giant step to take. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 3 years ago
It would apply equally to any President, it's fundamentally about Congress owning up to and taking responsibility for the most significant decision that we should ever have to make. – Qassem Soleimani	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life. – Alice Wu	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are now going through transitional arrangements ... and once the transition phase has been completed, then the state will enter into owning and operating the mine, the state has every right to refuse the lease, or to extend the lease, and in this instance, because of the environmental issues, resettlement issues and many, many other legacy issues ... the state has now refused the lease to Porgera. – Prime Minister James Marape	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Joe, what are you going to do to end the absurdity of billionaires buying elections and the three wealthiest Americans owning more wealth than the bottom half of our people. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There were changes to the economics of home ownership, particularly if you were in a place with high state and local taxes, or you had a rather large home with a big mortgage, the after-tax cost of owning a home increased. – Michael Gregory	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Standing armies consist of professional soldiers who owe their livelihood and income to the government. Unlike civilians who render periodic service in local militia, professional soldiers do not own property and therefore do not have any source of income other than the government’s military paymaster. Thus, they are more likely to serve the government’s interests, regardless of whether its leaders are dishonest and corrupt or not. In fact, standing armies may even promote rapacious foreign or domestic policies if such policies enrich the army. In contrast, arms bearing, property owning citizen militiamen have a stake in the health of the republic as a whole and can be trusted to act in the republic’s best interests, whether those interests call for action in support of or against the political leadership of the nation. – Anthony J. Dennis	added by Normando 4 years ago
There was nothing nefarious or illegal about owning a firearm, and they presented in no way that that firearm was contributory to toward the use of deadly force here. – Lee Merritt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There will be a judgment call as to whether any Rocky Lee investor would want to be associated with such businesses, i believe you will see some' quiet' exiting by Rocky Lee funds and possibly LPs, at least those U.S. investors who feel strongly that owning companies engaging in these activities are either immoral or politically incorrect. – Rocky Lee	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There will be a judgment call as to whether any U.S. investor would want to be associated with such businesses, i believe you will see some 'quiet' exiting by U.S. funds and possibly LPs, at least those U.S. investors who feel strongly that owning companies engaging in these activities are either immoral or politically incorrect. – Rocky Lee	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Owning the stack today in smartphones and chipsets is more important than it's ever been, because the outside of the phone is commodities. – Ryan Reith	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
SUVs is what the customer wants, owning a car is for many people part of having a higher quality of life. We need to ensure that even middle and lower income families can afford an electric car. – Herbert Diess	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Owning a car is for many people part of having a higher quality of life. We need to ensure that even middle and lower income families can afford an electric car. – Herbert Diess	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
And its not just Amazon, i think we need vigorous antitrust legislation in this country because you are seeing you name the area, whether its pharmaceuticals, whether it is Wall Street, whether it is high tech fewer and fewer gigantic corporations owning those sectors. He would appoint an attorney general. – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We have a new vision for America, at a time when we have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America while 500,000 people are sleeping on the streets today. We think it is time for change. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Owning domestic-focused names in China has been successful in 2019, even with all the noise around trade tension, weakening macro and the magic '7' level for the renminbi, names in the sportswear and beverage sectors have performed well as trade issues have not impacted them and their strong branding and high margins have attracted investors looking for less cyclical and global trade exposure. – Sat Duhra	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Sticking with that playbook of owning this market (North America) and expanding in this market is how we get to deliver to our public shareholders and the long-term expectations that we set. – Lyft Chairman Sean Aggarwal	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Owning a phone and owning an internet connection has become much more affordable and pretty much everyone who has a phone has WhatsApp now, so there's a much higher reach, at the same time the amount of internet literacy in large sections of the population is next to none. – Pratik Sinha	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If investors have this many choices, there's going to have to be something to lure investors to the table and take the risk of owning these new names. – Kathleen Smith	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The impact of apartheid on black families was devastating. In my own family it happened twice, where land was taken, we were moved from where my parents had grown up owning land, working the land, they were moved and dropped into an arid place with no compensation whatsoever, as it is now, the poverty that we have in South Africa, in part, has been given rise to by people not having assets. – President Ramaphosa	Found on CNN 5 years ago

We have a big problem with pension funds saying we believe in engagement, not divestment, but there’s no sign of this engagement, the very act of owning them (oil sands companies) implies the funds do not support transition.

– Adam Scott

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It’s never going to be easy. Through being accountable and owning your own journey and sharing what you can go though you can help other people, that’s why I came clean, I could have sat here and nobody would know.

– Kelly Osbourne

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

– Jackson Browne

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

There has never been anything like this at the presidential level because no President has insisted on owning a commercial enterprise at the same time they have existed as President, everyone in America is financially struggling, and he has this fail-safe method to minimize any struggling by his commercial properties by channeling other people's money to it.

– Fred Wertheimer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Owning a business is a giant step to take.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
3 years ago

It would apply equally to any President, it's fundamentally about Congress owning up to and taking responsibility for the most significant decision that we should ever have to make.

– Qassem Soleimani

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.

– Alice Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are now going through transitional arrangements ... and once the transition phase has been completed, then the state will enter into owning and operating the mine, the state has every right to refuse the lease, or to extend the lease, and in this instance, because of the environmental issues, resettlement issues and many, many other legacy issues ... the state has now refused the lease to Porgera.

– Prime Minister James Marape

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Joe, what are you going to do to end the absurdity of billionaires buying elections and the three wealthiest Americans owning more wealth than the bottom half of our people.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There were changes to the economics of home ownership, particularly if you were in a place with high state and local taxes, or you had a rather large home with a big mortgage, the after-tax cost of owning a home increased.

– Michael Gregory

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Standing armies consist of professional soldiers who owe their livelihood and income to the government. Unlike civilians who render periodic service in local militia, professional soldiers do not own property and therefore do not have any source of income other than the government’s military paymaster. Thus, they are more likely to serve the government’s interests, regardless of whether its leaders are dishonest and corrupt or not. In fact, standing armies may even promote rapacious foreign or domestic policies if such policies enrich the army. In contrast, arms bearing, property owning citizen militiamen have a stake in the health of the republic as a whole and can be trusted to act in the republic’s best interests, whether those interests call for action in support of or against the political leadership of the nation.

– Anthony J. Dennis

added by Normando
4 years ago

There was nothing nefarious or illegal about owning a firearm, and they presented in no way that that firearm was contributory to toward the use of deadly force here.

– Lee Merritt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There will be a judgment call as to whether any Rocky Lee investor would want to be associated with such businesses, i believe you will see some' quiet' exiting by Rocky Lee funds and possibly LPs, at least those U.S. investors who feel strongly that owning companies engaging in these activities are either immoral or politically incorrect.

– Rocky Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There will be a judgment call as to whether any U.S. investor would want to be associated with such businesses, i believe you will see some 'quiet' exiting by U.S. funds and possibly LPs, at least those U.S. investors who feel strongly that owning companies engaging in these activities are either immoral or politically incorrect.

– Rocky Lee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Owning the stack today in smartphones and chipsets is more important than it's ever been, because the outside of the phone is commodities.

– Ryan Reith

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

SUVs is what the customer wants, owning a car is for many people part of having a higher quality of life. We need to ensure that even middle and lower income families can afford an electric car.

– Herbert Diess

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Owning a car is for many people part of having a higher quality of life. We need to ensure that even middle and lower income families can afford an electric car.

– Herbert Diess

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

And its not just Amazon, i think we need vigorous antitrust legislation in this country because you are seeing you name the area, whether its pharmaceuticals, whether it is Wall Street, whether it is high tech fewer and fewer gigantic corporations owning those sectors. He would appoint an attorney general.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We have a new vision for America, at a time when we have three people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America while 500,000 people are sleeping on the streets today. We think it is time for change.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Owning domestic-focused names in China has been successful in 2019, even with all the noise around trade tension, weakening macro and the magic '7' level for the renminbi, names in the sportswear and beverage sectors have performed well as trade issues have not impacted them and their strong branding and high margins have attracted investors looking for less cyclical and global trade exposure.

– Sat Duhra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sticking with that playbook of owning this market (North America) and expanding in this market is how we get to deliver to our public shareholders and the long-term expectations that we set.

– Lyft Chairman Sean Aggarwal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Owning a phone and owning an internet connection has become much more affordable and pretty much everyone who has a phone has WhatsApp now, so there's a much higher reach, at the same time the amount of internet literacy in large sections of the population is next to none.

– Pratik Sinha

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If investors have this many choices, there's going to have to be something to lure investors to the table and take the risk of owning these new names.

– Kathleen Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The impact of apartheid on black families was devastating. In my own family it happened twice, where land was taken, we were moved from where my parents had grown up owning land, working the land, they were moved and dropped into an arid place with no compensation whatsoever, as it is now, the poverty that we have in South Africa, in part, has been given rise to by people not having assets.

– President Ramaphosa

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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