Scottish/
Canadian/
American
Inventor and
Scientist
(March 3,
1847 -
August 2,
1922)
"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
