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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
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. 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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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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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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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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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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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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Don't do anything that someone else can do.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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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 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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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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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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The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
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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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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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