...which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours" (Franklin 1950, p. 132). For other discussions of this topic, see also Marx, 1987, and Marx, 1996....

...Wealthy operate from a position of power. The Poor operate from a position of fear. Seven WealtK CI ues We should be glad of an opportunity to serve others...ours and this we should do freely and generously. —Benjamin Franklin In a study of wealth creation, it is logical to look at those who have been successful...

...to patent his polio vaccine, and 8enjamin Franklin left his many inventions unpatented, arguing that 'we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others...invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously'.48 And it's important to underline that this is far from a fringe movement - Matthew Arnison...

...declined it," Franklin noted in his autobiography. "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to...ours, and this we should do freely and generously." It was a noble and sincere sentiment. An exhaustive study by one scholar shows that Franklin's design...

...He never patented these inventions, arguing that 'as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to...ours; and this we should do freely and generously'. His experiments and theories on electricity were published as Experiments and Observations on Electricity...

...Pennsylvania. His elegant argument concluded, "That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to...ours, and this we should do freely and generously" (Franklin 1986, 130; original emphasis). And when others patented his inventions, on occasion earning...

...matter of principle with him as early as 1744 that "as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to...ours, and this we should do freely and generously." During the first couple of years of his retirement from business he seems to have developed a new commitment...

...wealthy man, but he refused. "That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others," he wrote, "we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others...ours, and this we should do freely and generously." 4 Franklin went on to an illustrious career. He was an extraordinarily successful inventor, and probably...

...the offer, following a fixed principle of his: "That as we enjoy great Advantage from the Inventions of Others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to...ours, and this we should do freely and generously," as he wrote in his Autobiography. One of the tragic, and all too common, hazards of colonial city life...

...ever weigh 'd with me on such Occasions, viz. That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to...ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Later, in London, he had his fireplace installed at his lodgings in Craven Street. And it was in London...