“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail”

“success is 99% failure”

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”

“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...”

“You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”