Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Heaven is a homegrown cucumber

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

We are not the reason the gospel works; the gospel is the reason the gospel works.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.