It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.