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

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

The world belongs to the articulate..

Politeness is the poison of collaboration..

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

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..

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

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

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

The present is the past biting into the future..

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

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it..

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity..

[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 ca….

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

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

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

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard..

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….

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea..