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

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.