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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas A. Edison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1847
Born: February 11
Died: 1931
Died: October 18
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