We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

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.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.