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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Edwin Herbert Land
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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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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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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