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.

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

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

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.

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

The price of progress is trouble.