Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

One fails forward toward success.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

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.