Leo Baekeland Inspirational Quotes (4)

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.