George Westinghouse Quotes

“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.”

“The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.”

“[Pavel Yablochkov's electric lamp is] the starting point for the creation of a new branch of industry.”

“They could have done it better with an axe.”

“I have always known what I wanted, and how to get it. As a child, I got it by tantrums; in mature years, by hard work.”

“Just as certain as death, Westinghouse will kill a customer within six months after he puts in a system of any size.”

“Each Titan was determined to master this mysterious fluid, each vied to construct an empire of light and energy on a new and monumental scale.”

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

“He isn't the kind of boy you can shape against his will.”

“In the pantheon of American inventors he is surpassed only by Thomas A. Edison. As an industrialist he deserves admittance into a small circle, including Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller. As an inventor/industrialist he stands by himself.”