US "engineer, inventor".
"Boss; invented the electric starter, 1911 and the electric cash register."
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
"Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are fingcr posts on thc road to achievement. The only time you don't fail is the last time you try something, and it works. One fails forward toward success."
"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 better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference."