Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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All bibles are man-made.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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Sticking to it is the genius.
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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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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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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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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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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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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
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The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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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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What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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.