Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

I failed my way to success.