The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.