Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.