The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
I was at the foot of my class.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living – our dread of coming to an end.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Religion is all bunk.
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source – frequently starting where the last person left off – I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
I think work is the world’s greatest fun.
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.