We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.