Amar Bose
Amar Bose
Amar Gopal Bose,was an American academic and entrepreneur of Indian descent. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyfor over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT’s education and research mission...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 November 1929
CountryUnited States of America
Amar Bose quotes about
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
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.
I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
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.
At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
I never went into business to make money.