When there’s no experimenting there’s no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction – faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Work while others are wishing.
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
I failed my way to success.
I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on.
Success is the result of hard work.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus...
Absorb ideas from every source.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn’t work.
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
This problem, once solved, will be simple.