I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.