All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training and in addition to extensive knowledge, a natural quality of mind was also necessary.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.