Investment Quote by Lonnie Johnson

“Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you're looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.” quote by Lonnie Johnson — Download Open image

“Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you're looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.”

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More and more, other countries are able to manufacture things cheaper, beating us in the marketplace in a lot of ways. So we need…

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Lady Luck is indifferent. She smiles sometimes, and she frowns sometimes.

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The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it…

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It was because of the success of the Super Soaker, I was able to at least get an audience with people to present some…

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Large companies can afford to file patents on every idea they have. Small companies, we have to weigh our options, do the research. We…

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I have a collection of SuperSoakers. I have managed to keep most of them.

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I can remember times when we'd be having parties, and people would be dancing and everything and I would be sitting there in the…

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I didn't want to grow old and find that I didn't do what I could have done, that I didn't put my best foot…

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I consider myself a general practitioner. I do electronic things. I do toys and water things, mechanical stuff. I'm very, very flexible.

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Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.

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I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and…

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I wound up getting offered a job at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I invented a power supply mechanism for the Galileo space…

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