James Payn Quotes

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

When you have no money, you need invention.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I'm an inventor.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.