And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

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.

And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.

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

No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.