George Westinghouse

“The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite... but we have learned how to handle them.”

“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”

“I have always known what I wanted, and how to get it. As a child, I was always thinking of new inventions.”

“I am a worker. I have been a worker all my life.”

“I know that there is a God, and that He is good. And I know that this is not all.”

“We will all be failures, and everything we do a failure, unless we are willing to sacrifice for the things we believe in.”