The entrepreneur is the pivot on which everything turns.

Innovation is the outstanding fact in the economic history of capitalist society.

Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.

I shall either find a way or make one.

-- Hannibal

The spear that is thrown is lost.

-- Shaka Zulu

The photophone is the greatest invention I have ever made, greater than the telephone.

-- Alexander Graham Bell

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

-- Wright brothers

I have never done anything original; I simply put to practical use the discoveries of other men.

-- Guglielmo Marconi

Nothing in this world is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Carl Benz