Thomas A. Edison – 30 Quotes

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30 Quotes by Thomas A. Edison

 

Religion is all bunk.

– Thomas A. Edison


Great ideas originate in the muscles.

– Thomas A. Edison


There is no substitute for hard work.

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– 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


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– 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


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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

– Thomas A. Edison


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.

– Thomas A. Edison


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!

– Thomas A. Edison


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.

– Thomas A. Edison


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.

– Thomas A. Edison


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.

– Thomas A. Edison


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.

– Thomas A. Edison


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