American
Inventor and
Scientist
(August 29,
1876 -
November 24,
1958)
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
"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."
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
"It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
"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."
"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."
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
"One fails forward toward success."
"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier."
