Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
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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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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
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Sticking to it is the genius.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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There is always a better way.
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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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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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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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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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My mother was the making of me.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Consider data without prejudice.
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Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.