George Eastman Quotes

United States, Entrepreneur
July 12, 1854 – March, 14, 1932.

George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film stock in 1888 by the world's first film-makers Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, William Kennedy Dickson, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and Georges Méliès.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

George Eastman
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

George Eastman

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

George Eastman
- Distributed
- Mutts
You push the button, we do the rest.

George Eastman
- Rest
- Push
- Button
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.

George Eastman
- Choices
- Human
- Wealth
I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

George Eastman
- Children
- Taken
- Results
Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

George Eastman
- Children
- Company
- Would
Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

George Eastman
- Work
- Suicide
- Wait

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

George Eastman
- Photography
- Embrace
I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

George Eastman
- Believe
- Before
- Helpful