Queen elizabeth Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“A patent is simply and purely a grant of monopoly. Why would a supposedly enlightened government, which has laws against monopolies in other forms,…

— Anonymous

John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon cans…

— Charles R. Morris

“Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete…

— Mark Kurlansky

“A Patent is not a license to make money, it is a license to prevent others from making money.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may…

— Robert H. Jackson

There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered…

— Mark Kurlansky

The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply than usual would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage…

— Paulo Coelho

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

— Daniel Webster

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

— Abraham Lincoln

“That was when the Venetians made an important discovery. More money could be made buying and selling salt than producing it. Beginning in 1281,…

— Mark Kurlansky

“To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala