“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin
“An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. If he succeeds once then he’s in. These two things are diametrically opposite.” – Charles Kettering
“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. ” – Peter Drucker
“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.” – Steve Jobs
“Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.” – Barry Forbes
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” – W. Lippmann
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ” – Steve Jobs
“There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.” – Cyrus H. Curtis, US Publisher
“Every time we’ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.” – Thomas J. Watson
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” – Larry Ellison
“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – The Apostle Paul, Romans 12:2
“When asked in an auditorium of hundreds why he had changed his management system over and over again, his response at an age of 90+ years was, “Am I beyond learning?” – W. Edwards Deming, The father of Total Quality Management
“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” – Charles F. Kettering
“Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms.” – Herbert W. Boyer, Co-founder of Genentech