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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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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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Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
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Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.
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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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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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