Thomas A. Edison Quotes

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.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

Do the thing and the power will come.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

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

Being busy does not always mean real work.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

Success depends on how many experiments you can fit into 24 hours

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

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.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Success is the result of hard work.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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.

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

There is always a better way.

Absorb ideas from every source.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

I have had a lot of success with failure

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.