- "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
- "When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
- "What you are will show in what you do."
- "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
- "To have a great idea, have a lot of them."
- "There's a way to do it better - find it."
- "There is no substitute for hard work."
- "There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
- "The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
- "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
- "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
- "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
- "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."
- "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
- "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."
- "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
- "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
- " I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- " Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
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