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!
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, an...
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not...
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all 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.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
