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At 13, I realized that I coul...

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

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I loved music, and in my nint...

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

There is an enormous inertia ...

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

I would have been fired a hun...

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

The food we ate was Indian, a...

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

The prejudice was so bad in t...

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

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One hundred percent of our ea...

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

I had studied violin from age...

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

All military and most commerc...

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

I hope that the institution w...

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

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But today the quickest way to...

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

There was a time when I was w...

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

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No one ever won a chess game ...

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

One hundred percent of our ear...

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

I never went into business to ...

I never went into business to make money.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

I would have been fired a hund...

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.'s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

The food we ate was Indian, an...

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

We learned the value of resear...

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

Invention is arrived at by int...

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

The excitement level for me wo...

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

Amar Bose 38 quotes

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