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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Interest is the invention of Satan. -- Thomas A. Edison
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool. -- Thomas A. Edison
The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased. -- Thomas A. Edison
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. -- Thomas A. Edison
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. -- Thomas A. Edison
Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others. -- Thomas A. Edison
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. -- Thomas A. Edison
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful . -- Thomas A. Edison
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work. -- Thomas A. Edison
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have had a lot of success with failure -- Thomas A. Edison
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made. -- Thomas A. Edison
I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. -- Thomas A. Edison
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines . -- Thomas A. Edison
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. -- Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it. -- Thomas A. Edison
If there is a better solution ... find it. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. -- Thomas A. Edison
My mother was the making of me. -- Thomas A. Edison
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. -- Thomas A. Edison
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. -- Thomas A. Edison
Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl. -- Thomas A. Edison
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf. -- Thomas A. Edison
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. -- Thomas A. Edison
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music. -- Thomas A. Edison
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. -- Thomas A. Edison
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. -- Thomas A. Edison
The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. -- Thomas A. Edison
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions ... . The dove is my emblem ... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it ... . I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill ... . -- Thomas A. Edison
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward. -- Thomas A. Edison
There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs. -- Thomas A. Edison
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity. -- Thomas A. Edison
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them. -- Thomas A. Edison
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application, -- Thomas A. Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -- Thomas A. Edison
To get a great idea, come up with lots of them. -- Thomas A. Edison
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. -- Thomas A. Edison
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work -- Thomas A. Edison
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is time for everything. -- Thomas A. Edison
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -- Thomas A. Edison
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don't Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can't Decide My Future -- Thomas A. Edison
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure -- Thomas A. Edison
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up. -- Thomas A. Edison
I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve. -- Thomas A. Edison
Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong! -- Thomas A. Edison
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. -- Thomas A. Edison
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. -- Thomas A. Edison
I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. -- Thomas A. Edison
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them. -- Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait. -- Thomas A. Edison
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles
can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train
the mind to think. -- Thomas A. Edison
Never go to sleep
without a request to your subconscious. -- Thomas A. Edison
Ideas without execution are hallucinations. -- Thomas A. Edison
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization ... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation -- Thomas A. Edison
Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals. -- Thomas A. Edison
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is very beautiful over there. (last words) -- Thomas A. Edison
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms. -- Thomas A. Edison
The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead. -- Thomas A. Edison
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting ... not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution. -- Thomas A. Edison
First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead. -- Thomas A. Edison
The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. -- Thomas A. Edison
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered. -- Thomas A. Edison
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. -- Thomas A. Edison
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Books will soon be obsolete in the schools ... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. -- Thomas A. Edison
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. -- Thomas A. Edison
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -- Thomas A. Edison
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward -- Thomas A. Edison
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward ... -- Thomas A. Edison
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never quit until I get what I want. -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas A. Edison
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure. -- Thomas A. Edison
The secret of success is focus of purpose. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! -- Thomas A. Edison
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it -- Thomas A. Edison
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another ... -- Thomas A. Edison
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! -- Thomas A. Edison
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. -- Thomas A. Edison
I didn't fail ten thousand times.
I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times,
materials and combinations which wouldn't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. -- Thomas A. Edison
This problem, once solved, will be simple. -- Thomas A. Edison
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident ... Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work. -- Thomas A. Edison
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job -- Thomas A. Edison
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ... study and read everything you can on the subject. -- Thomas A. Edison
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction. -- Thomas A. Edison
We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present. -- Thomas A. Edison
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -- Thomas A. Edison
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. -- Thomas A. Edison
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. -- Thomas A. Edison
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night. -- Thomas A. Edison
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous ... it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe. -- Thomas A. Edison
Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. -- Thomas A. Edison
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. -- Thomas A. Edison
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind - the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit. -- Thomas A. Edison
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. -- Thomas A. Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas A. Edison
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end. -- Thomas A. Edison
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor -- Thomas A. Edison
An idea is something that won't work unless you do. -- Thomas A. Edison
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck. -- Thomas A. Edison
Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas A. Edison
Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy. -- Thomas A. Edison
I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe. -- Thomas A. Edison
I was at the foot of my class. -- Thomas A. Edison
I'll try anything ... I'll even try Limburger cheese! -- Thomas A. Edison
M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n! -- Thomas A. Edison
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. -- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is the heaven of life. -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%. -- Thomas A. Edison
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools. -- Thomas A. Edison
I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent. -- Thomas A. Edison
The value of a good idea is in using it. -- Thomas A. Edison
Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. -- Thomas A. Edison
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. -- Thomas A. Edison
Do the thing and the power will come. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us. -- Thomas A. Edison
The value of an idea lies in the using of it. -- Thomas A. Edison
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. -- Thomas A. Edison
I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal. -- Thomas A. Edison
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters. -- Thomas A. Edison
Seeming to do is not doing. -- Thomas A. Edison
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. -- Thomas A. Edison
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man. -- Thomas A. Edison
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. -- Thomas A. Edison
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. -- Thomas A. Edison
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain. -- Thomas A. Edison
The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen. Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future. -- Thomas A. Edison
There are no rules here
we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
A man's best friend is a good wife. -- Thomas A. Edison
Consider data without prejudice. -- Thomas A. Edison
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! -- Thomas A. Edison
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. -- Thomas A. Edison
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. -- Thomas A. Edison
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. -- Thomas A. Edison
A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result. -- Thomas A. Edison
Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. -- Thomas A. Edison
What you are will show in what you do. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is a better way to do it - Find it! -- Thomas A. Edison
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. -- Thomas A. Edison
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. -- Thomas A. Edison
Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours -- Thomas A. Edison
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. -- Thomas A. Edison
I get my ideas from listening from within. -- Thomas A. Edison
Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal! -- Thomas A. Edison
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! -- Thomas A. Edison
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change. -- Thomas A. Edison
Absorb ideas from every source. -- Thomas A. Edison
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. -- Thomas A. Edison
When you become quiet, it just dawns on you -- Thomas A. Edison
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. -- Thomas A. Edison
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But ... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. -- Thomas A. Edison
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE -- Thomas A. Edison
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me. -- Thomas A. Edison
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble. -- Thomas A. Edison
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy. -- Thomas A. Edison
Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't. -- Thomas A. Edison
I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it. -- Thomas A. Edison
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. -- Thomas A. Edison
Nature made us ... nature did it all ... not the gods of the religions. -- Thomas A. Edison
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. -- Thomas A. Edison
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear. -- Thomas A. Edison
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. -- Thomas A. Edison
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! -- Thomas A. Edison
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking. -- Thomas A. Edison
Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work. -- Thomas A. Edison
No Such Thing as Bad Results -- Thomas A. Edison
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. -- Thomas A. Edison
What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning. -- Thomas A. Edison
Religion is all bunk. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures -- Thomas A. Edison
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast -- Thomas A. Edison
The dove is my emblem. -- Thomas A. Edison
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress. -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration. -- Thomas A. Edison
Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something ... -- Thomas A. Edison
A genius is a talented person who does his homework. -- Thomas A. Edison
You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with. -- Thomas A. Edison
I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep. -- Thomas A. Edison
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple. -- Thomas A. Edison
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. -- Thomas A. Edison
Education isn't play
and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work. -- Thomas A. Edison
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful. -- Thomas A. Edison
A lawsuit is the suicide of time. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is always a better way. -- Thomas A. Edison
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. -- Thomas A. Edison
Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities. -- Thomas A. Edison
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others ... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. -- Thomas A. Edison
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new. -- Thomas A. Edison
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. -- Thomas A. Edison
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence ... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills. -- Thomas A. Edison
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine. -- Thomas A. Edison
There's a way to do it better - find it. -- Thomas A. Edison
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them ... -- Thomas A. Edison
It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought. -- Thomas A. Edison
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun. -- Thomas A. Edison
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles. -- Thomas A. Edison
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. -- Thomas A. Edison
Youth doesn't take advice. -- Thomas A. Edison
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ...
I've failed my way to success. -- Thomas A. Edison
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! -- Thomas A. Edison
I think work is the world's greatest fun. -- Thomas A. Edison
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would. -- Thomas A. Edison
In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again. -- Thomas A. Edison
Work while others are wishing. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is no subsitute for hard work. -- Thomas A. Edison
To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu. -- Thomas A. Edison
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk. -- Thomas A. Edison
Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas A. Edison
I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing ... -- Thomas A. Edison
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison. -- Thomas A. Edison
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. -- Thomas A. Edison
Having a vision for what you want is not enough ... Vision without execution is hallucination -- Thomas A. Edison
I try not to invent things that people don't need. -- Thomas A. Edison
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it. -- Thomas A. Edison
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. -- Thomas A. Edison
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! -- Thomas A. Edison
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness ... -- Thomas A. Edison
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere. -- Thomas A. Edison
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. -- Thomas A. Edison
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience. -- Thomas A. Edison
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability ... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. -- Thomas A. Edison
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions ... -- Thomas A. Edison
The radio craze will die out in time. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work, -- Thomas A. Edison
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. -- Thomas A. Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas A. Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. -- Thomas A. Edison
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best -- Thomas A. Edison
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. -- Thomas A. Edison
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. -- Thomas A. Edison
Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior. -- Thomas A. Edison
Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan. -- Thomas A. Edison
Vision without execution is delusion. -- Thomas A. Edison
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is a better way for everything. Find it. -- Thomas A. Edison
I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt. -- Thomas A. Edison
All bibles are man-made. -- Thomas A. Edison
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something. -- Thomas A. Edison
In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world. -- Thomas A. Edison
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems. -- Thomas A. Edison
The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around. -- Thomas A. Edison
It's very beautiful over there. -- Thomas A. Edison
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process. -- Thomas A. Edison
Great ideas originate in the muscles. -- Thomas A. Edison
There is far more opportunity than there is ability. -- Thomas A. Edison
I start where the last man left off. -- Thomas A. Edison
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. -- Thomas A. Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. -- Thomas A. Edison
Sticking to it is the genius. -- Thomas A. Edison