An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

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.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.