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.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The destination of the seeker… depends on the road he takes.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
