Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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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.
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".
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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.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'
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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.
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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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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.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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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.
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Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
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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!
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To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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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.
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Success is the result of hard work.