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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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.
And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.
Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).
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.
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.
Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.
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.
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.