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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get an...  
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He trea...  
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.  
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectati...   Business
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the...  
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.  
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on ...  
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we ca...  
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains yo...  
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in t...  
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perha...  
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between know...  
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thi...  
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of m...  
One fails forward toward success.  
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the f...  
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exac...  
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the ...   Science
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but troubl...  
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail...  
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the fai...  
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people un...  
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so f...  
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought prog...   Change
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibili...  
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can...  
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a will...  
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.  
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to ...  
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired em...  
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to sp...  
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved...  
You can be sincere and still be stupid.  
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday a...  
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the mo...