I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.