Ownership Quotes

[So has the Government got its balance wrong? Some argue that most people want security, affordability and ownership and that these issues needn't be separated. Shelter's point, however, is that the official drive to get everyone a mortgage needs a cooler look, without the basic presumption that ownership is the only desirable way forward - otherwise policy can end up seriously skewed:] Home ownership is not the answer for all... That's all we are saying. - Ben Jackson

[Out of this has grown the phenomenon of] fractional ownership, ... Some corporations, maybe three, four or five, will go together and own a couple of corporate aircraft. They'll hire a staff of pilots and mechanics to run the aircraft. It's like calling for a taxi, and you fly point-to-point instead of hub-to-hub. - Dave Miller

[Noting that the Mets have a policy that requires every player to stand for the song, Delgado said he would not create a distraction.] I said when I met with the ownership that I'm employee No. 21, ... I'm not going to put myself in front of the team. I'm here to follow orders, and that's the way it goes. - Carlos Delgado

[Lauderdale Courts, Audubon Drive, Graceland: Elvis eclipsed the American dream, vaulting from housing project to home ownership and millionaire status in less than a decade. His former residences give us] a tangible sense of his trajectory for future generations to understand... Interestingly, these three structures, as well as his birthplace in Tupelo, are so evocative of Southern building types. - Judith Johnson

[He knows how to dramatize his subject matter.] The faculty retaining ownership is the last bulwark of defense of the universities as they exist, ... It's high noon. - David Noble

[From the ownership perspective, the Olympics has done little to spike interest in the NHL after the last two Games and, from a marketing perspective, has done little more than expose the NHL product as dull and inferior. With the Games in Europe, the impact will be even less than it was in Salt Lake in 2002 and the travel will be much harder.] The tough part now is that we're in a different situation than we were in 2002, ... We just missed one full season and I know there's probably some concerns from owners, probably more in the United States, in the sense of getting started again and trying to build that enthusiasm for the National Hockey League again and then having to shut it down for 17 days. - Wayne Gretzky

[Bell got his feet wet in online marketing as director of retail marketing and e-business at Ford Motor Co.] My first job was to clean up the mess from the various Internet acquisitions made at Ford... The real gem was forddirect.com, which we were able to establish technically, and also gain the support of the dealer network via ownership and usage. In many ways, the things I learned at Ford about how they structured the Web influenced my later decisions at Daimler-Chrysler. - Jeff Bell

(We find it) a good idea to avoid (individual) boat ownership and own it collectively. There's all new safety equipment (on the boats), a handheld GPS...everything needed to sail. - Ed Fazio