I don’t mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, ‘Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?’

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it’s you.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don’t do anything that someone else can do. Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

The world is like a fertile field that’s waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

There’s no scientist I know who wouldn’t rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it’s great fun!

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn’t know they had.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.