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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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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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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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The radio craze will die out in time.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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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 thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.
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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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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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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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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 get my ideas from listening from within.
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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 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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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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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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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Being busy does not always mean real work.
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All bibles are man-made.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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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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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.