There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
99 percent of success is built on failure.
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it’s going to be. That is my reason for planning.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
It is the ‘follow through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
The only time you mustn’t fail is the last time you try.
Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
If you’re doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.