"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing."

"People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack."

"Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor."

"The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born."