Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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There is much more opportunity than there are people to see it.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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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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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
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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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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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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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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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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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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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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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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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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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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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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.