Youth doesn’t take advice.
Large portions of life’s disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
I’ve realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night’s sleep.
I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
Interest is the invention of Satan.
Nothing that’s good works by itself, you’ve got to make the damn thing work.
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
Consider data without prejudice.
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
I get my ideas from listening from within.
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs – no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled – will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don’t align with my organization’s.
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.