"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' "

"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"We can chart the path to the future clearly and wisely only when we know the path that has led to the present."

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

"A company is an organic, living breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind."

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not...the world is full of educated derelicts."

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

"Give your workers more sophisticated jobs along with better tools, and you'll discover your employees will become more responsible and bring more intelligence to their work."

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the faint-hearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal."

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was 1,000 miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."