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

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Success is made of 99% failure.

Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

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

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.