I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

Men who leave their money to be distributed by others are pie-faced mutts.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face. What more would one ask. (Explaining why he named his company Kodak.)

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

You push the button, we do the rest.