There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It…

Edwin Land
37 citations
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'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.
Humanity
25

More Author Quotes

As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribut … ▶
Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.
This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals
The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes