Leo Fender is a legend in guitar design. Not only did he pioneer the use of reverb with, according to Dick Dale, the help of Dick Dale, he's also widely responsible for popularizing the electric guitar.

Fender figured out how to produce guitars on a large scale. His timing was impeccable and Fender was poised to get guitars into the hands of kids in garage bands across America just as Elvis and The Beatles started taking the country by storm.

Fender got his start tinkering around at his uncle's electronics shop, and after getting laid off from several accounting jobs during the Depression, he went out on his own and never looked back. He would still come into work at G&L every day until he died.

It's a cliche these days for entrepreneurs to say they want to "change the world," but here are some quality quotes from a man that truly did it:

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