(28 quotes found)
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Reading widely and getting as much information as possible exposes you to small pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle and even if the information is not 100% clear at the time, by shuffling it around in your mind, ideas eventually come to you. I don't really see myself as an inventor. I do, however, listen to what people say and try to understand the problem and determine whether there's a need.”
James Portman
“It pays to be ahead of the curve ... just not too far ahead.”
Greg Kavander
“He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.”
David Carson
“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 form 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. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are just so many inventors out there, and until now, inventing really wasn't taken seriously.”
Phil Bertolo
“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor”
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
“Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.”
Vanna Bonta
