It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

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

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.