Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits…

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

— Napoleon Hill

Now tell me what got two thumbs and knows how to spit rhymes? Two thumbs up, you gon point em at this guy. Al…

— XV

“Edison invented the lightbulb the way Steve Jobs invented the MP3 player: he wasn’t the first, but he was the first to make something…

— Steven Johnson

“And, of course, he eventually found it—proving that genius often really is just persistence in disguise. In applying the entirety of his physical and…

— Anonymous

“The State's got the Burden of Proof, Edison says, kind of like we do every day.”

— Jodi Picoult

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

— Henry Ford

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to…

— Nikola Tesla

“I have not failed,” said Thomas Edison. “I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.”

— Margaret Moore

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of…

— Henry Ford

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and…

— Anonymous

When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con man and…

— Linda Rottenberg

The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes…

— B. C. Forbes

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

— Al Jardine

“Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws”

— Napoleon Hill