Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

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.

I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.