Edwin Land Quotes

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

  Edwin Land

  Obsolete, Products

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

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

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  Construction Projects, Important, Impossible

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

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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.

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  Memories, Perception, Cameras

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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  Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

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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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• 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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• The present is the past biting into the future.

  Edwin Land

  Past, Biting

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• Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

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  Causes, Colour, Consequence

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

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  Can Do

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

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

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  People, Focus, After Hours

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• Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

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  Teamwork, Decision, Collaboration

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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.

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  Art, Thinking, Needs

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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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  Ideas, Stopping, May

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

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  Science, Method, Kidding Yourself

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• You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

  Edwin Land

  Reality, Perfect, Technique

  "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", (Vol. 146, no. 1, p. 115), March 2002.

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• If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

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  Important, Able, Problem

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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.

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  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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