Property Quotes · Page 13

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

— Warren Buffett

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he…

— Henry David Thoreau

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

— Robert H. Jackson

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

— Tony Blair

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

— Calvin Coolidge

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We believe in defending everyone's lives. We believe in defending everyone's property.

— Javier Milei

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

— Edward Gibbon

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to…

— Jack Welch

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man…

— Noah Webster

The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source…

— Bill Mollison

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix…

— Joseph Rykwert

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process…

— danah boyd

There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human…

— Mirra Alfassa

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,…

— Joseph Stalin

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that…

— William Blackstone

“There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you…

— Jeannette Walls

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that…

— Erich Fromm

“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up…

— Stonewall Jackson

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come…

— Herbert Hoover

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers &…

— Robert E. Lee

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,…

— KRS-One

So if the meaning of the Trump brand is being the ultimate boss who has the power because he's so rich, the…

— Naomi Klein

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

— Michael Bloomberg

“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.”

— Helen Raleigh

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be…

— Jeff Mills

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

— James Madison

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

— Michel de Montaigne

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

— Seth Klarman

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

— Jesse Jackson

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

— Samuel Smiles

“Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

— Nick Jonas

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

— Hilaire Belloc

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

— Niels Bohr

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

— Jeannette Rankin

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

— Leopold Kronecker