An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.