#inventor

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#asks #ever #inventor #other #people

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#company #get #him #inventor #market

I've been an amature inventor for a long time. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#i #inventor #long #long time #time

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved. ↗

— Piet Hein

#einstein #inventor #poet #art

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#like #make #nothing #rejection #you

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#greed #injustice #inventor #well

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. ↗