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Don't do anything that someone else can do.

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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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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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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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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
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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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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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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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An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.
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Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.
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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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