Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

Fear is always a good motivator.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.