Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
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I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
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Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
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I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
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Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.
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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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An idea is something that won't work unless you do.
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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.
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The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
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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.