The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

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.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.