Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten tr….

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking..

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus..

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success..

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple b….

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon ….

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.".

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be ce….

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end..

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to….

Observe, Remember, Compare..

One day every major city in America will have a telephone..

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action..

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened fo….

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds..

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another..

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods..

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself..

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion..

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open..

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exa….