I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

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

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.