Proprietor Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land…
— Thomas Paine
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AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My…
— Yves Klein
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Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor…
— Thomas Paine
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The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator…
— Clive James
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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally…
— Robert Fortune
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Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you…
— Andy Grove
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There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over…
— Alan Bennett
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What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.
— Max Stirner
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The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one…
— Andy Grove
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Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
— Conrad Black
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[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform…
— Paulo Freire
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The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
— Elfriede Jelinek
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come…
— E L Doctorow
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Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia,…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Who Wrote These Proprietor Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Proprietor Quotes as follows: