Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
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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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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor.
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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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Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.
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Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
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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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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to the national debt. Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 - that is what it amounts to, with interest.
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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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I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
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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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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
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I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.