Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
With every door that closes a new one opens.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.