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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

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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
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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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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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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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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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
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