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.

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.

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

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

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

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.