Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

When things go wrong don't go with them

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off