Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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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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The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.
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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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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
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I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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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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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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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.
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When you become quiet, it just dawns on you.
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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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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.
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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!
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
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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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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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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
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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.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.