“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“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”