Jeremy Stoppelman Quotes

I mean, comics fear sue - you know, lawsuits and stuff like that, just because they don't like to do paperwork.

For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.'

When you're working on a Marvel movie, their legal department do not play.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

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. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the various characters who've stolen your interests, or fending off hostile lawsuits from former members of the band.

Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

No legal fee can be too high for a large corporation with billions at stake on a phrase in a law or the timing of a regulation.

Taking out a patent is an invitation to a lawsuit.

The legal and ethical issues are just beginning.

Ethical and legal are not synonyms. ;

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.