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

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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.

done running interesting

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person wh... by Amar Bose

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

programming impossible thinking

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling. by Amar Bose

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

programming invention intelligent

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

perseverance failure inspirational

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.

maximizing corporations giving

I'm forming a charitable institution for education. by Amar Bose

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

charitable institutions

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

boston symphony years

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.

sound looks years

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a b... by Amar Bose

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

excitement levels different

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

hundred research earning

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that pr... by Amar Bose

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

jet-engines design military

We learned the value of research in World War II. by Amar Bose

We learned the value of research in World War II.

keys war history

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.

mother philosophy father

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

discipline expectations years

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.

mother dark father

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.

mit boston gone

Research in this country is going down. by Amar Bose

Research in this country is going down.

research country

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed. by Amar Bose

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

never-change changed research

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. by Amar Bose

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

violin age

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off... by Amar Bose

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

lines cutting sea