Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application, — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work, — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
