66 Proprietary Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous proprietary quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational proprietary quotes. Hopefully, these proprietary quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your proprietary knowledge!
Famous Proprietary Quotes
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. — Norman O. Brown
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — Karl Marx
A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity. It creates in the mind of the prospect the perception that there is no product on the market quite like your product. — Al Ries
Property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Code and media are permissionless leverage. — Naval Ravikant
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. — Kim Dotcom
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn. — Charles Vest
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. — Linus Torvalds
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. — A. J. Liebling
The road to profits is paved with unfair advantages. — Lewis Howes
The more successful the corporation, the more likely it is to be unique in some of its policies. — Philip Arthur Fisher
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. — Aristotle Onassis
Short Proprietary Quotes
- Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. — Mos Def
- There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about. — Fran Lebowitz
- No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. — Richard Stallman
- It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail. — Bernard Madoff
- Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
- You’re not the only one who can get possessive. I’m very proprietary about what’s mine. — Sylvia Day
- There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. — Jimmy Wales
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More Proprietary Quotes
If you're someone in the business of verifying transactions on a proprietary network, the invention of Bitcoin cannot be safely ignored. It will change or disrupt the providers of most proprietary payment networks in the coming years. — Brian Armstrong
Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch between payment providers and creates less competition for services. — Brian Armstrong
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power. — Richard Stallman
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. — Kevin Mitnick
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware. — Richard Stallman
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not. — R. H. Tawney
The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and you live happily ever after. There isn't room for more nuanced concerns about the creepy proprietary nature of that relationship model, or the breadth of what fulfillment really means for women. — Lindy West
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software. — Richard Stallman
It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource. — Clayton Christensen
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code. — Richard Stallman
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. — Richard Stallman
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. — Larry Wall
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest. — Helen H. Gardener
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. — David Lehman
In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology. — Vinton Cerf
I think we should be clear: Companies will still need software that furthers their corporate goals and even gives them competitive advantage. That would be purchased and developed, if necessary, in house, or on a proprietary basis. But it needs to run on the company's computer system eventually, and its perfectly possible that system/network can be "rented out" from a utility. — Steven Pearlstein
I suppose the real problem is if science becomes proprietary. If we start designing our children to have the edge, you will start seeing a certain kind of overclass developing, which obviously has terrible social implications. — Luke Scott
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface. — Michael Bierut
When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When the product isn't yet good enough, the way you compete is by making better products. In order to make better products, the architecture of the product has to be interdependent and proprietary in character. — Clayton Christensen
I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women. — Matthew Weiner
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things. — Lewis Hyde
The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing. — Neil Young
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. — Eric S. Raymond
Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy. — Tim Berners-Lee
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story. — Zack Snyder
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. — Jimmy Wales
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. — Matt Mullenweg
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software. — Matt Mullenweg
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software. — Richard Stallman
At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it. — Denise Scott Brown
We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. — Hanna Rosin
If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%! — Tim Berners-Lee
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. — Tim O'Reilly
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