Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

"Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation."

"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."

"My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands."

"I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics."