Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is 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
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — 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
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness… — 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 was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” — 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
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability… We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like… — 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
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus... — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. — 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
“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.” — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. — 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
