Edwin Land Quotes

I have always focused on the bottom line.

Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but still they go on thinking in terms of having. Their heaven is nothing but their projected desire of having everything. All that they have missed here they would like to have in the after-life. But it is the same desire.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As I wrote down in one of my sonnets - I seem to be always plagiarizing, imitating myself or somebody else for that matter - I think I am quite unworthy of heaven or of hell, and even of immortality.

Today, rather than talk in terms of ideology or ideas like socialism, I think more important issues to discuss are things like compassion and accountability.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

Religion is not in fault.

Do I think there is a heaven? Uh, yeah I do. Like a really big gymnasium. How do I see myself there? With really bad seats.