"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."

"There is no joy in work without application."

"I have no use for a motor car that has more than one working part, a motor."

"An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."