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 view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

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

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.