Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
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Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You've got to make the damn thing work!...I failed my way to success.
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
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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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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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Friendship is the heaven of life.
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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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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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They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.
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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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I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.
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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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To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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Work while others are wishing.
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In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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Success is the result of hard work.
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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.