“Marketing is what you do when your product is no good” 

''If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; ... it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”

“Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.”

“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself”

“Politeness is the poison of collaboration”

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

“Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”

“Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.”

-Edwin Land

Although he led the Polaroid Corporation as a chief executive, Land was a scientist first and foremost, and as such made sure that he performed "an experiment each day". Despite the fact that he held no formal degree, employees, friends, and the press respected his scientific accomplishments by calling him Dr. Land. The only exception was the Wall Street Journal, which refused to use that honorific title throughout his lifetime.

Land often made technical and management decisions based on what he felt was right as both a scientist and a humanist, much to the chagrin of Wall Street and his investors. From the beginning of his professional career, he hired women and trained them to be research scientists. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, he led Polaroid to the forefront of the affirmative action movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land