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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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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Edwin Land
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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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Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.
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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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The bottom line is in heaven!
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