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

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 ….

Observe, Remember, Compare..

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have….

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

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

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree..

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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..