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

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

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.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

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.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

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."