Nikola Tesla on Leadership Quotes

"Of all things, I liked books best."

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

"I do not count the hours I work; for me, it is not labor but the very essence of my existence and joy."

"All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully."

"Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment."

"We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences."

"I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men."

"Great moments are born from great opportunity."

"My work is my obsession. It is my life."

"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention."

"Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view."

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter."

"I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own."

"The hard work of the future will be the work of the mind."

"What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth."

"In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle."

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."

"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense."

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up."

"Instinct is something which transcends knowledge."

"The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains."

"The sun is the ultimate spring, the source that drives all human life and energy."

"An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving."

"Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves."

"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind."

"Practical success is achieved by the use of new principles."

"Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it."

"There is a knowing that transcends logical deduction; our instincts often grasp truths that our intellect has not yet processed."

"The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature."

"I had to fight against established systems to prove that alternating current was the superior method for powering the globe."

"Once wireless technology is fully realized and applied, the entire earth will function as a single, cohesive brain, which it is in fact."

"One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration."