Archived Quotes

I decided to sell my vacuum cleaner

it was just gathering dust.

We should not give up

We should not allow

the problem to defeat us.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.

The other day she looked at my calendar

and wanted to know who May was.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes

its reward to the man who loves his work.

But...

I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Wide diversification is only required

when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Let us sacrifice our today

so that our children can

have a better tomorrow

Whatever my individual desires were to be free,

I was not alone.

There were many others who felt the same way.

Let us not be too particular;

it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine

but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet,

and the cause and prevention of disease.

Our success has really been based on partnerships

from the very beginning.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

People judge you by your performance,

so focus on the outcome.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Wise men speak because they have something to say;

fools because they have to say something.

A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much,

while so many have so little.

It’s not the load that breaks you down;

it’s the way you carry it.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

All my life through

the new sights of Nature

made me rejoice

like a child.

Fight for the things that you care about,

but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.