Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Seeming to do is not doing.

I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

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

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.