Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.