Back Quote by Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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…

— 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…

— Lonnie Johnson

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…

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

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

— Lonnie Johnson