In 1902, fresh out of college, a young man named Willis Carrier went to work in Buffalo, New York at a company that made equipment for factories. Within a few years, he had invented something he called, “An Apparatus for Treating Air,” better known today as air conditioning. What a cool invention! Another famous American inventor, Thomas Edison, reminded us that “thinking is hard work.” But even when it’s hard to do, thinking pays, and sometimes it pays off in very big ways. So, keep thinking about ways you can make your world a better place. There’s always a better way, and when you find it, then like Willis Carrier, your hot idea will have very cool results.

Willis Carrier Made the World a Better Place. You Can, Too.

Quotes from Famous Inventors

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work.”
Thomas Edison

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
Henry Ford

“When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones that are open to us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

“The Wright Brothers flew right through the smokescreen of impossibility.”
Charles Kettering

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
Henry Ford

Keep Thinking Good Thoughts

The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down. It has to be wound up daily with good thoughts. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. Lorraine Hansberry

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln