I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.