Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

There is always a better way.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.