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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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