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Gordon Gould

"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen."

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"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen."

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"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."

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"Good intentions are the best business."

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"When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!"

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"No business can be a great success without a great purpose."

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"Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow."

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"According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand."

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"Take your dreams off the ground to the clouds of business where your products will contribute to make the world a better place."

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"If you don't have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it's given to you! If you don't have an idea, you can't even know how much money you need... This is because; it's your ideas that give you the cost to pay!"

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"Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement."

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"Professional men run the business started by the courageous men."

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"Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different ."
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"There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance."
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"The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser."
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"I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now."
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"That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics."
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"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen."
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