Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution, because the exact framing of the problem leads to its solution.
Albert Einstein
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
If an engineer has not had some failures, it is merely evidence that his practice has not been sufficiently extensive.
Benjamin Baker
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
Ferdinand Porsche
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures?
Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci