I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

Ideas without execution are hallucinations.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

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.