21 Of The Very Best Thomas A. Edison Quotes
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like 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.
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
- 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.
- Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- There is no substitute for hard work.
- Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
- What you are will show in what you do.
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- There’s a way to do it better – find it.
- To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
- I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
- If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.