▶ "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."; "When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."; "What you are will show in what you do."; "Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."; "To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity."; …"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."; "To have a great idea, have a lot of them."; "They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."; "There is no substitute for hard work."; "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."; "There is far more opportunity than there is ability."; "The value of an idea lies in the using of it."; "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."; "The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."; "The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."; "The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."; "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."; "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."; "Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."; "Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress."; "Religion is all bunk."; "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."; "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."; "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."; "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."; "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."; "It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work."; "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."; "I start where the last man left off."; "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."; "I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."; "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."; "I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."; "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."; "His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."; "Great ideas originate in the muscles."; "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."; "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."; "Discontent is the first necessity of progress."; "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
