Trade Secret Quotes

#1. The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

Craig Venter

#3. I didn't really want to patent it because, for one, I don't like software patents, and, two, if you patent it, you make it public. Even if you don't know someone's infringing, they will still be getting the benefit. Instead, we just chose to keep it a trade secret and not show it to anyone.

Jessica Livingston

#4. He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

Jay McInerney

#5. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything. But something tells me that after a certain time a secret joy possesses them, a joy they would not agree to trade for any of their memories, even the most stirring. ...

Emil Cioran

#7. She'd trade places with Tessa. She'd always had a secret crush on Julian.

Pamela Clare

#8. Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

Stephen Colbert

#9. It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

#10. It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

Laura Hillenbrand

#11. Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.

Jeff Sessions

#12. Trade your secrets and become who you are.

Frank Warren

#13. One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Patrick Stewart

#14. My parents' room is an uncataloged planet, a night sky presence unknown to scientists but feared by the secret faithful who trade rumors of its mystery.

John Darnielle

#15. Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

John Le Carre

#16. A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

Marsden Hartley

#17. Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

Adam Smith

#18. It made him different, and because he was different he felt uncomfortable, and because he felt uncomfortable he could feel himself floating away for everyone and everything.

Nick Hornby

#19. There's a space between forgetting and moving on, and it's not easy to find.

Jennifer E. Smith

#20. I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Philippe Petit

#21. A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

Thomas Watson

#22. Spock smiled without smiling - something McCoy had seen him do once or twice before, and damned if

J.M. Dillard

#23. Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.

Maxwell Grantly

#24. IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

Darl McBride