“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”

Ronald Reagan

“It is not who you are, it is what you do that defines you!”

UNKNOWN

“Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing!”

Sydney Smith

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein has been credited with saying this: “Small is the number of them who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. But it is their strength that will decide whether the human race must relapse into the state of stupor which a deluded multitude appears today to regard as the ideal.”

Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground..

Bend,dont buckle.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent."
- Thomas Edison

Julie, here is a link to a thread already full of quotes. Hope you like them. http://www.edisonnation.com/forums/fulfillment/...

http://www.rogerbrown.net

This is a good thread this one, all wisdom, I feel I need a break from all the business talk, my head is too cynical for it i think

Julie you are really hammering us with that Einstein quote, was it he got out of the wrong side of the bed that morning, you, or maybe me?
My quote is
oh, forget it, until i find one as good as the ones already invented

that nut one is brilliant if not a little worrying
I must think of my favourite quote
ok this one
Jesus said on the cross

‘Forgive them father for they know not what they do’

in other words all human beings are a little crazy so they deserve forgiveness, works every time .

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world… Same world.”

Wayne Dyer
Author and Speaker

http://store.sixminutestosuccess.com/?aid=597099

“Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”

Thomas A. Edison

(think this is rather appropos for inventors…)

“The Garden of Eden hasn’t gone anywhere, we’ve just built some sidewalks in it.”

william ricely

Two Faves

“You don’t have to know where you’re going, as long as you’re on your way”

and

“Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement”

We are all one-of-a-kind, In our heart, and soul, And in our mind, and it shows with each new idea and design.

“Many a false step is made by standing still.” Anonymous

Ad Astra per Aspera…….To the Stars through Difficulties. Seneca

“Both those who wait for permission, or those who fear risk and wait for safety will also pay the consequences of their inaction: They will live insignificant lives and die little deaths, waiting and fearing. They will never see the stars, not even in their dreams.”
- James and Alcestis Oberg. From: Pioneering Space

“Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes.” Yiddish Folk Saying (quite timely)

“The greatest tragedy in life is to live with missed opportunities, regrets and no options available to make choices”.

Tis a lesson you should heed,Try,try again; If at first you don’t succeed, Try,try again; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear; Try,try again.

“Every new day begins with possibilities, it’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.”

Ronald Reagan

To Be is to Do.
To Do is to Be.

Do Be Do Be Do!

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it.”
Peter Drucker

and do-be-do-be-doo to you too…

“I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale

Merry Christmas….

Hey Julie,
I’m bringing this forum back to the top with a new one I just heard the other day:

“If you invent for the elite, you end up eating with the masses, but if you invent for the masses, you’ll end up eating with the elite”

You’re still the queen of quotes!

I suggest a look at this VERY SPECIAL website for inspiration. It is a great gift for all what this women started and for free to all that visit.

I am trying to get an interview on here…we’ll see…got other interviews like this but this place has some real winners to inspire http://www.inspiremetoday.com/

Ron Komorowski
Inventor of Handi-Straps
www.handi-straps.com

Darn, Bruce! You are not only the best but have discerning abilities! ;-)

Here is another one: read a few times and think about it:

“How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water! You are not a fish. How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves! You are not me. How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?” Taoist mondo

Merry Christmas….

“Never quit
Never do the expected
Never rest on your laurels
Never think great is good enough
Never follow”

Happy New Year

I have a gadget on my igoogle page called motivational quote of the day,so when I fire this machine up every morning I get a little positive kick in the pants.

“People that live in glass houses shouldn’t wear thongs.” :)

Hi Karl, Would you have time to share the daily motivational quotes or at least tell me how to get them myself?

Thanks.

Julie,Google has a feature called igoogle that allows you to customize your home page with all sorts of gadgets,like daily quotes,horoscope weather etc. In the upper right corner of the igoogle page you will see ,add stuff,click on that and a new window comes up that you can scroll through or search fo a specific type of gadget and add it to your home page.

Do not let what you cannot do intefere with what you can do.(John Wooden)

“Dead last finish is greater than did not finish which greatly trumps did not start” (author unknown).

Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.

Patton

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand.”
Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

Refuse to dream only of what other people think is possible

“There are greater personal gains using life’s energy finding meaning in the experience or the exchange.”

Confucious

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”

Henry David Thoreau

Quijote tells Sancho: “¡Ladran, Sancho!, señal que cabalgamos,”

“They’re barking, Sancho; hence, we’re riding ahead”

“The wayside of business is littered with the remains of those who started with a spurt, but lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by those unshowy plodders who never know when to quit.”

I love Don Quixote and his wisdom! I thing the line is better translated as: “They’re barking Sancho — a sign we must be galloping.”"

The Stupid neither forgive nor forget.
The Naive forgive and forget.
The Wise forgive but don’t forget.
Anon…

I consider myself Wise……

Caractacus Potts

I was Inspired it be a inventor after seeing this man as a child " Caractacus Potts "And how he made Is breakfast.

Do you know this man Julie?

I consider myself Wise……

He is one of the main characters in the family film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (BUT, I didn’t know until I went to Ask.com)

Here is something I wish our government would remember:

“……Entrepreneurial capitalism was the only system that could create a better life for the masses….”

Joseph A. Schumpeter (SHOOM-pay-ter)

Hi Julie
Found Caractacus Potts breakfast making invention on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJOfavJLeA