I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

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

It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor