Inventors Quotes

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. - Voltaire

They touted their ability to turn inventors' ideas into profitable products. But fewer than 1 percent of the customers who invested in their services got royalties from their patents that amounted to more than they paid the promoters. - Lydia Parnes

They don't know a wit about marketing... That is the biggest challenge for most inventors. - Joanne Hayes

There are just so many inventors out there, and until now, inventing really wasn't taken seriously. - Phil Bertolo

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. - Harry Seidler

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. - Walt Whitman

That level of invention takes place in places where blacks were not hired [or enrolled]. They could not actually be ... part of a team of inventors until well after integration. - Portia James

Sharing those inventions [was difficult]. There were a whole different set of strategies and experiences for black inventors [compared to] white inventors. - Portia James

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. - Alfred Rosenberg