Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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All bibles are man-made.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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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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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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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 perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
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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.
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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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.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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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.
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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.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.