What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.
Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours.
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
A failure teaches you that something can’t be done-that way.
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Never say ‘I failed 99 times’, say ‘I discovered 99 ways that cause failure!’
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
I never quit until I get what I want.