There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

There is no substitute for hard work.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.