Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the mind to think.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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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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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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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 first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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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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What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
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Work while others are wishing.
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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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I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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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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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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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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I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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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Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
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I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.