It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

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.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.