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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
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.
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A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.
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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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