I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Absorb ideas from every source.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

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

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