Inventor Robert Fischell urges perseverance in innovators

Business Review West Michigigan ^ | November 04, 2009 | Mark Sanchez

[USALiberty]

He didn’t start 13 successful companies and secure more than 200 patents over 40 years by giving up when things got tough.

Perseverance drove Robert Fischell to success. Sticking with an idea they believe can work is his best advice for other inventors aiming to get their innovation to the marketplace.

“The harder I work, the luckier I get,” Fischell said Wednesday in a keynote address on medical device innovation at the annual MichBio Expo in Kalamazoo.

“Give yourself the opportunity to get lucky. When you think of something, don’t just let it go. Figure out a new way to do something that will change the human condition,” he said. “The point is, if you believe in something and you see it can do good, stick with it.”

[USALiberty]

Now THIS is what I am talking about! Too many people in Michigan (mostly the Detroit area) have a "woe is me" attitude. In CONSERVATIVE West Michigan, people are willing to roll up their sleeves and help themselves!

[posterchild]

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” - Calvin Coolidge