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.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

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