Edwin Land Quotes

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• It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

  Edwin Land

  Business, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

  Edwin Land

  Obsolete, Products

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• Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

  Edwin Land

  Construction Projects, Important, Impossible

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 139 (p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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• Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

  Edwin Land

  Art, Science, Accounts

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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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.

  Edwin Land

  Important, May, Impossible

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 139 (p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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• Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

  Edwin Land

  Long, Problem

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• A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

  Edwin Land

  Mistake, Benefits, Values

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• Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

  Edwin Land

  Marketing, Advertising, Products

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• [The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.

  Edwin Land

  Memories, Perception, Cameras

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• You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

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  Failure, Succeed

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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  Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

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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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  Mistake, Events, Benefits

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• Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

  Edwin Land

  People, Focus, After Hours

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• Don't do anything that someone else can do.

  Edwin Land

  Can Do

  "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes magazine, (Vol. 139, p. 83), May 4, 1987.

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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.

  Edwin Land

  School, Excess, Harvard

  Edwin Land's comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting as quoted in Danny Miller "The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal"(p. 126), 1990.

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• Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

  Edwin Land

  Teamwork, Decision, Collaboration

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• The present is the past biting into the future.

  Edwin Land

  Past, Biting

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• Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Method, Kidding Yourself

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• The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

  Edwin Land

  Art, Thinking, Needs

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• The world belongs to the articulate.

  Edwin Land

  World

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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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  Years, World, Definitions

  "A Talk with Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 115, No. 7 (p. 50), April 1, 1975.

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• ...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

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  Thinking, Two, Add

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• We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

  Edwin Land

  Mean, Years, Common Sense

  Edwin Land's statement to Polaroid Corporation employees (June 25, 1958) as quoted in Victor K. McElheny "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" (p. 189), 1998.

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• The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

  Edwin Land

  Power, Important, Use

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