None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.