Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
The value of an idea lies in using it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this; you haven’t.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.