Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.