“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”

“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.”

“It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”

“Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.”

“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”

“No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.”

“One fails forward toward success.”

“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.”

“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”

“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”

“The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.”

“The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.”

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.”

“Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”

“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”

“You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.”