I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

I start where the last man left off.