quotes by Thomas A. Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"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."
— Thomas A. Edison

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "
— Thomas A. Edison

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
— Thomas A. Edison

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
— Thomas A. Edison

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
— Thomas A. Edison

"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."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. "
— Thomas A. Edison

"There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Vision without execution is hallucination."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving
up. The most certain way to succeed
is to TRY just one more time."
— Thomas A. Edison

"What you are will show in what you do."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Rules? Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something!"
— Thomas A. Edison

"Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~ "
— Thomas A. Edison

"i never did a day’s work in my life. it was all fun."
— Thomas A. Edison

"There is no substitute for hard work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I have not failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves."
— Thomas A. Edison

"There is no substitute for hard work. Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I didn't fail. I just found 2 thousand ways how not to create a light bulb."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most of us because it is dressed in coveralls and looks like work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
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— Thomas A. Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking."
— Thomas A. Edison

"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many people fail to recognize opportunity because it comes disguised as work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation."
— Thomas A. Edison

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
— Thomas A. Edison

"When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2,000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I didn't make a mistake. I just found 10,000 ways that didn't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"The value of an idea lies in using it"
— Thomas A. Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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— Thomas A. Edison

"most of life's failure's are those people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.."
— Thomas A. Edison

"i havent failed i have just found 10000 ways that dont work"
— Thomas A. Edison

"There is time for everything."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I never did a days work in my life-it was out all fun"
— Thomas A. Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
— Thomas A. Edison

"I haven't failed I'ved found 2000 ways not to make a light bulb"
— Thomas A. Edison

""People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project 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 ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.""
— Thomas A. Edison