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

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them....

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....