Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.