Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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There is no subsitute for hard work.
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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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.
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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.
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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.
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.
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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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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.
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I try not to invent things that people don't need.
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.