The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best