Edwin Herbert Land (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor.
He is best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. Edwin H. Land
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. Edwin H. Land
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin H. Land
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. Edwin H. Land
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.
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 H. Land
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.
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration. Edwin H. Land
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. Edwin H. Land
You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.
My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had. Edwin H. Land
My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. Edwin H. Land
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin H. Land
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
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 H. Land
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.
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. Edwin H. Land
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
