WednesdayJan 14, 2026
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In many ways ideas are more important than people they are much more permanent.
Where these is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: 'Leave slide rules here.' If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, 'Boss, you can't do it.'
Research: Finding out what you are going to do when you cannot keep on doing what you are doing now.
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Keep on going and chances are you stumble on something. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
People are very open-minded about new things as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a gook living.
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Take good care of your future because that's where you're going to spend the rest of your life.
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Nothing ever built ... arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
The difference between intelligence and education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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