Thomas A Edison quotes

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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.

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

There is no substitute for hard work.

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

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Religion is all bunk.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

What you are will show in what you do.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

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.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

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

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

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

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

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

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

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