Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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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.
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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This problem, once solved, will be simple.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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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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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.
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I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
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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.
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Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.