Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.
Believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall
Nobody can love what they don’t feel in their hearts.
Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect.
That this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. –Benjamin
Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns.
Imagination is the life force of the genius code.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance, wrote John D. Rockefeller.
Betrayed by men he trusted, Tesla found himself unemployed and in desperate need of work to survive.
Deep down inside, we don’t seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that’s what the nature of genius is ultimately about.
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts, Tesla promised.
Or, as Tesla put it, A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may ha...
Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti.
Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination. As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These succe...
By the end of 1897, Westinghouse was nearly bankrupt, and it looked as though Morgan would usurp everything that Tesla and Westinghouse had built together.
But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat.
We’ve been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life.
The seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice.
York City attorney—in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work,